Ubuntu :: Change To Prevent The Freezing At Startup?
May 30, 2010
If I have compiz on, it causes my system to freeze sometimes at startup. I've turned compiz off, but I miss the effects. Is there a setting somewhere I could change to prevent the freezing at startup. We have a computer with an nvidia card with compiz enabled, and this doesn't freeze. Graphics Card: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (From lscpi) Ubuntu Release: 10.04
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Aug 24, 2010
I am getting frustrated and at my wits end. I went away from home for 3 days and came back to a frozen computer. To start, my linux computer was locked and wouldn't allow me to switch to my other computer using my KVM. All I saw was the default wallpaper with no icons, cursor or anything. Rebooting the computer allowed me to resume normal operation on the other but not on my linux comp.Now when I boot I can only get to a recovery console if luck is on my side and trying a normal boot freezes the computer with a blank screen and blinking cursor.
I tried editing the GRUB commands with "nomodeset", "i915.modeset=0" and "i915.modeset=1" with no luck. I also tried removing "quiet" and "splash" from the boot and it freezes at random parts of the boot. Sometimes with an error loading a device with IRQ 21 and sometimes on a memory address. I am running XP on the same computer, so I thought I would try to boot into that, even THAT freezes!I have even tried running my LiveCD and it tells me there is an error reading the boot CD...the same CD I installed with 3 weeks ago without any problem! As I type this, the computer is booting, sort of, to a black screen with a ridiculously large "X" cursor and a small white dot in the upper left.System Specs:Athlon 32004gb RAMGeForce 7200generic DVDgeneric sound
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Aug 7, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. My computer (IBM Thinkpad R40) is freezing whenever I turn it on. Once it gets to the login, the mouse and keys don't work. I don't know if this is an Ubuntu problem or a problem with my laptop. Does anyone know how to fix this? Do I need to upgrade my RAM (I have half a gig RAM; I have a lot on my laptop, so maybe I need to make it a full gig?).
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May 8, 2010
I installed 10.04 LTS with great succes on my very old compac armada 500 laptop, but experience the problem of the hanging diskcheck at startup at regural intervals. I read this is a reported bug. My question is: is there any file or methot by which I can prevent diskcheck from running at startup, or put the frequency of running at a very very large number at least until the bug is fixed ?
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Feb 24, 2011
How can I prevent a program loading on startup? The program does not appear in Preferences / Startup Applications. I want to avoid having to sudo kill all programname every-time I login.
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Sep 9, 2010
I have a Toshiba Laptop Satellite L355-S7905 Intel Celeron Processor 585 @ 2.16 Ghz, Mobile Intel GL40 Express Chipset. 4GB of Memory, 160 GB HD. Tri-boot: Windows 7, Unbutu 10.04 and Fedora 12.
Here is what happened: I had a hard/forced shutdown while using Ubuntu 10.04. Some warning text flashed on the screen before it went blank and I could not read it. Now when I turn on my laptop it freezes on the Toshiba set up screen. I can not go to the F2 setup, I can not go to the F12 boot seqence and I can not use F8 safe mode. Also the ESC button had no effect.
I have tried turning it on with the Win 7 cd in the drive but nothing. The same when I put my Ubuntu 10.04 cd in the drive, nothing. My guess is that the forced shutdown messed up the bootfile/grub order. The harddrive runs for a few seconds then stops. Should I attack the problem from a Windows view point or a Ubuntu view point?
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Mar 25, 2010
i had a previous post regarding startup issues with sshkey generation here [URL]... now im stuck at the part after that where the starting sendmail line is, im starting to think that my ram is going to pieces on me because windows 7 and ram hungry games like mass effect ran just fine on the same machine 3 weeks ago... i ran a memory test off an ubuntu live 9.10 cd and it passed so idk whats going on here i've tried two distros and both strike out and i get stuck at startup and never even see that purdy gnome desktop.
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Aug 22, 2010
I am using ubuntu 10.04 and made some changes in Xorg.conf to try enabling twinview. Unfortunately, Ubuntu just stops at the startup logo now. Is there a way I can stop the loading of X, so I can undo the error in Xorg.conf and hopefully make Ubuntu load normally again? Grub automatically loads Ubuntu, there is no Grub menu that allows loading of some alternative config.
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Feb 12, 2010
Two weeks ago my computer started freezing on start up when plugged in. It was suggested to upgrade the APM. What is this and is it not updated through the package update? If not how do I upgrade it?
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Jun 15, 2010
I'm looking for a manner to prevent users from changing the desktop background/wallpaper and all other gnome configuration with booth Ubuntu and Kubuntu. This too (Abraxis, some years ago, have same my problem) [URL] do not solve the problem, for example if I change whit chown (*) own and group of this file to root /.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf.xml, at the next reboot file return in the previous state. (I don't like Pessulus).
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chown root:root %gconf.xml
chmod 644 %gconf.xml
At the reboot file change automatically owner to "student", I don't know why?
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Dec 15, 2010
UUIDs make fstab hard to read, so.. Is it possible to use udev rules to prevent HDs to change device, instead of using UUID in /etc/fstab?
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Feb 21, 2010
I'm running Karmic with an NVIDIA GeForce 6600, normally at 1280x1024. Just during the past week, the resolution has started spontaneously changing to 1024x768, just after I type the password to login. I get the Ubuntu splash screen with the animated light thingy underneath, then the screen flickers and it goes to 1024x768. I have tried changing driver but this has no effect.
I then have to change it manually using the Nvidia X Server settings utility, which is fine. I can then save X settings into /etc/x11/xorg.conf but next startup it does exactly the same again. I have seen a lot of posts in which Ubuntu leaves users stuck in a low res, or even tries to put them into an unsupported res, but nothing quite like this. Is there a Gnome setting somewhere that defines screen res at startup??
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Mar 15, 2010
I cannot find where i can change the startup sound for 9.10. Everywhere that i have read so far has me go to System->Preferences->Sound and there was supposed to be a tab there for logon and logout sounds. I do not have that tab in my sounds screen.
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May 17, 2010
I have a dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu karmic and by default whenever i turn on my system it automatically boots into ubuntu but i want windows 7 as my default boot up os, so can anybody please suggest what should i do.
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Feb 22, 2011
I want to know how to change ubuntu startup logo?
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Apr 12, 2010
I have noticed a few problems when some screenlets are loaded before some others. I think that "Startup Applications Preferences" should have an option to arrange the order of their execution.
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Apr 13, 2010
I have Ubuntu 9.10 and I want to replace the splash screen with the white Ubuntu logo and the marquee progress bar with that of Xubuntu with those whirling sparkles.
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May 13, 2010
I wanna get the startup sound Backtrack plays when logging in . Anyone can show me how to change the system startup sound and where I may be able to download that startup sound from?
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Dec 5, 2010
I recently installed Ubuntu according to the instructions on the site. However, now when I start up my computer I see Ubuntu, Ubuntu recover (something like that), two windows 7's, and windows vista. Before I installed Ubuntu I only had windows 7. How can I clean it up so that I only see Ubuntu and Windows 7?
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Feb 21, 2011
I'm using dual OS (XP and Ubuntu 10.04) and i have been using ubuntu for past a year, now i have a problem when booting, that i made by mistake.
I use Windows XP only to work with Photoshop other than that i mostly use Ubuntu for everything. Recently my windows xp got crashed, so without any idea i have reinstalled windows xp but now i cann't able to find my ubuntu. i don't know what to do right now?
Am i required to reinstall ubuntu (my most of the files are in ubuntu), is there any solution without reinstall.
I find that need to change the boot.ini, but i'm not getting any proper results
Note: Need to Change the booting from windows XP to promting for Ubuntu and Windows XP
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Feb 16, 2010
I'm using in the server 8.4 and installed the package startupmanager which is GUI, through this package I can show the text during boot, unlike in the 9.10, I checked the "show the text during boot" same I did in the 8.4 bu It's not showing the text and still show the splash...
how to change it direct from shell instead of the stupid GUI
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Jun 6, 2010
It takes about 30 seconds for the desktop to 'fully load'. When I login I see my background, but nothing else. Then you wait 30 seconds and you see the panels appear. Is there any way to fix this lag, and make it an instant load? Cause really it should not take that long to load a panel with not really anything on it.
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Aug 18, 2010
Can I change the default template used by gnumeric at startup? How?
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Aug 5, 2011
How do you change the order of execution of gnome startup apps?(System - Preferences - Startup Applications) does not seem to have any way to do it.I saw an archived post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=659420) which offered a couple of ideas... (1) mucking around with /etc/rc2.d/ -- but that seems to be only system-level apps, not user apps; or (2) going to (System - Preferences - Sessions) and mucking around in there -- but I don't seem to have that menu on my system (10.04 LTS running as a guest in vmware player 3.1)I just want vmware-user to run before my gnome-terminals so that the desktop is resized before the terminals run.
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Mar 29, 2010
Have decided to stop using Hylafax and our two serial modems on our server running Clarkconnect 4.1 (RHE4.1)What file will I go to to edit so the program and two devices don't start up?I disconneted the devices and the log file is full of the attempts to get the modems working
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Jul 8, 2010
When I attempt to create a USB Live Xubuntu setup via the Startup Disk Creator, the settings for the Persistent drive are disabled/gray. When I perform the setup, no extra space is reserved for the persistant drive.
I've used the same USB drive for Live Ubuntu installations in the past and had no problems.
Does the USB Startup Disk Creator work with Xubuntu?
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Mar 31, 2011
I'm not referring to "Gnome Login Sound" I'm referring to the login screen sound. Those 2 drum pats you hear when you start up Ubuntu, before logging in. I was using Macbuntu, and have switched back, however it never changed my login sound back to what it was suppose to be. I knew how to change everything else back, so i didn't just run a script with out knowing how to clean up after it, however this is the only thing I don't know how to do. It keeps looking into the macbuntu folder to get the sounds before i log in. Probably being able to simply set the sound theme in the login screen would fix this issue. I've tried using Ubuntu Tweak, but no such luck. If no one can't find a solution I'll just have to use the other folder from now on >.< However I'm quite certain there's a script somewhere, that I can edit. I just need to know where it's at.
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Sep 18, 2010
I have an external drive mounted courtesy of an entry in fstab. The drive isn't detected at boot time until AFTER the backuppc service that will use the drive has started. I have to therefore manually stop and restart the backuppc service once booting has completed, otherwise backuppc thinks there is no drive available to it.
How can I force the mounting of my external device to occur BEFORE the backuppc service starts?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 server edition
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Jan 5, 2010
Before karmic while I was using Jaunty, I used to do it all the time, play my favorite sounds wherever I was them, startup, error, login, logout, etc etc... I found it in System>Preferences>Sound...
But when I do the same in Karmic, the opening dialogue box doesn't give me an option to change every sound specifically, instead, although it gives me option to choose a sound theme of my own. But for that I must first compile a theme and then install it / place it in sound themes directory etc etc.
How would I change sounds for particular events without having to compile a whole new theme (customizing the current Ubuntu sound theme)...
how do I create sound themes for Ubuntu and them install them in my Ubuntu?
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Jan 23, 2011
Is there any way to change the startup sound in netbook remix edition 10.04?
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