Im a freshman ubuntu user and i have been enjoying it till this morning. I installed filezilla ftp client software this morning and it worked. I later restarted my laptop and the boot process was normal until it was to show the log in screen. At that point, the screen remained blank. its been 3 hours and 10 restarts later and im still here...
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My ubuntu isn't starting up today. I can't remember anything unusual happening last night, not even a standard system update.
It presents me with the Grub loader, screen goes blank, and that's as much as I get. I have gone into a recovery mode through the grub loader, and that gives me a bit more info, but I don't know what to do with the information it is giving me.
It says: Gave up waiting for root device. common problems (etc) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/<long name> does not exist. Dropping to a shell.
It is right - the /dev/disk/.... does not exist. A different file with an equally long filename does exist
I had xp sp3 installed on my system celeron 2.0 ghz.and two hard disks.I had installed succesfully ubuntu on other disk. after restart I can see dual boot menu. one xp professionl and other ubuntu. I clicked on the ubuntu but after logging only a cursur blinks on a blank screen. I can see the choice menu "normal","verbose" etc but when I started in normal mode, a blank screen appears and a cursor blinks.
View 13 Replies View RelatedSlack 13.0 X sometimes fails to start after boot about 50% of the time. linux says "starting X11 session" then I get a blank screen with a flashing cursor and absolutely nothing else. I can <ctrl>-<alt>-<F7> and get a text prompt, log in, and startx from a command prompt. After that, I can reboot once or twice and still get a graphic login, but will soon revert to the dumped condition. I have reinstalled X and KDE twice now as well as deleting my .kde folder. This condition started when I inadvertently ran out of disk space on my /home drive. Since then I have migrated /home to a larger drive and watch it's disk space very carefully.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have just installed Fedora11 on my machine - the installation failed to start the x server so I had to install with the textbased installer. When the installation completes, I boot up and first I update Fedora with "yum update". Then I install a nvidia driver with "yum install kmod-nvidia". Then I run nvidia-xconfig to make a config file. But when I try to run "X", I just get a blank screen. I can run system-config-display fine, and setup my resolution etc. The log doesnt seem to give me any errors.I have two Geforce Fx3500 card in the machine.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI want to install Suse 11.3 on a Proliant server. I thought not to take the obvious Windows CD's (little sorrow now) and try Linux. I used an USB Live CD to start. I tried all the startup options like apci=off and so on. Also tried lower resolutions and VESA. Still no luck. After running and starting (seeing in ALT-F4 the Kernel loading), all ALT screens get a blank black screen. Only option is to restart, while then SUSE is displaying it is going down.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have just installed Fedora11 on my machine - the installation failed to start the x server so I had to install with the textbased installer. When the installation completes, I boot up and first I update Fedora with "yum update". Then I install a nvidia driver with "yum install kmod-nvidia". Then I run nvidia-xconfig to make a config file. But when I try to run "X", I just get a blank screen. I can run system-config-display fine, and setup my resolution etc. The log doesnt seem to give me any errors. I have two nvidia Fx3500 card in the machine. I have tried the 173, 185 and 190 driver - same thing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having the same problem, as soon as X tries to load my screen just goes blank. I have an ATI Radeon 9550. At first I tried switching between VGA and DVI as well but upon ruling that out, I switch to my on-board video card and that is working thus far, but I'm trying very hard to figure out a way to be able to switch back. Anyways I'll check back in later on if I have any new information I will post.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen i use my computer (whether it's going online, typing, playing a flash game, or coding) I get these "Black Flashes" that are becoming longer and more frequent. A "Black Flash" is when my computer screen turns blank (but you can still see the backlight) and i have to press the NUMpad ENTER button, shake my mouse furiously, or click my mouse, which sometimes causes undesired actions, but gets me my screen back. sometimes the Black Flashes last a milisecond or 5 seconds or i have to hold the power button and restart because it won't come back on.
Specs:
Toshiba P205-S6337 Laptop
Ubuntu Karmic Koala
2.39 GB of RAM
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Recently the power went when i was using ubuntu and my system shut down since the ups took too long to supply power. So i started my system and choose to boot linux, but it said display drivers not detected, linux running in low graphic mode, and it said 1. run windows in low graphic mode for now...2. reset to previous graphic mode- i chose this and it restarted, since then the ubuntu loading page appears and then my monitor goes blank although my processor is running.....why is this happening?.....i have a ati 5770 graphic card through which it should display.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an old-address-list file which is having around 1500 entries. I need to convert this addresses in to a specific format.
The old-address-list file>
# cat old-address-list-file
dn: CN=Muhammad Hadhi K.M,OU=IT Dept,OU=Example Company H.O,DC=example,DC=com
cn: Muhammad Hadhi K.M
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Is there a known problem with the Lubuntu 10.10 image here? I have downloaded it to two different computers, then burned the images to two different blank CD's (different brands) and neither loads. Both only get as far as the Lubuntu menu, once ENTER is pressed at that point to load the LiveCD, a blank screen eventually appears with a flashing cursor at the upper left of the screen, that's it. They were both burned using the slowest burn speeds available.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe day started as usual until I got the very bright idea to install Ubuntu. A new OS along side W7, that sounded great. I checked some guides on the Internet, it was all very straight forward. Install it and Grub will show you the OS:es when you boot up. I installed Ubuntu, rebooted. After the BIOS messages the screen goes blank and my screen on-button begins to blink, as if trying to find a signal, I press enter, it reboots instantly. After BIOS messages I get to a screen that says "GRUB error: uknown filesystem grub rescue>"
I've looked through everything here and nothing works. I've tried to fix the mbr-thingy using Windows Repair and even though it says "one partition was updated with new boot-thingy" when I reboot, I get into that very same grub rescue. I think my setup has something to do with it. I run RAID0 (2x360Gb hard drives), first having C: at 50Gb and then the rest as F: for programs and such. What I did was that I shrunk the F: part and then used that as partition for Ubuntu. Also please have a look at these screenshots, my partitiontables and such seems completely wacky to the raid: Where should the boot-loader go? I'm very, very new at this. I've had Ubuntu Netbook remix on my netbook for a time but still treat me as an utter beginner.
I'm trying to test out using xubuntu 10.04 on my one computer and keep getting a black/blank screen after selecting the 'try' menu option.Is there a way to fix this?I have tried some of settings via F6 with no luck.
FYI -The CD works fine as I have tested it on other machines.The version I am trying is xubuntu x86 (although I have tried ubuntu 10.04 x86 with similar results).I can Alt+Ctrl+F1 fine and get to the cmd prompt
I fixed this issue on 10.04, but just recently (1 hour ago) upgraded to 10.10 and am having the same issue. Machine boots fine, but the screen is blank for most of the boot, and plymouth is up for about a half second before I get to the login screen.I've tried searching the threads, but for the life of me I can't find the solution and can't remember what I did to fix it on Lucid.
View 4 Replies View Relatedlike any other Linux newb, I came to Ubuntu because my Windows crashed one time too many. And I chose Ubuntu because "it just works". But these past few days that hasn't been true. I'm posting this from a netbook with Ubuntu, and am having no problems whatsoever, but normally I use an Acer Aspire 5920G laptop. I'll include the specs as written on the sticker:
* Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5250 (1.5GHz etc)
* Up to 1024 MB Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS Turbocache
* 2 GB DDR2
Let me know if you need more details, and I'll add them later. Now, what happened was I clicked "hibernate" while leaving Firefox open. (I've done this hundreds of times, no problem) And when I went to turn it back on the next day there were weird graphical glitches in the loading screen, and it booted to the "tty1" prompt screen. I did a lot of googling and found quite a few posts about it, but the solutions either didn't work, or I didn't understand them. After trying several different suggestions from this forum and others, I managed to delete the graphics drivers. That enabled me to boot in low graphics mode, and naturally, I tried a whole bunch of things to make it work properly again. That only made it worse. Now it went straight from the loading screen to just blanking out and turning the display off. So, I tried new things. Over and over. The weird thing is even when I disconnected my harddrive and ran from a Live USB, the problem persisted. Could there be an issue with the graphics card itself? Anyway, after reconnecting the harddrive I tried to boot again. And it suddenly worked. Even HDMI to my bigger screen worked.
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I'm resizing an ext4 partition from 100gb to 40gb (I only used 20gb of it or so). Lets say partition is at /dev/sda1. I used
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efsck -f /dev/sda1
to check it
Then I did
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resize2fs -p /dev/sda1 40G
to resize it
When I check fdisk -l, the partition is still 100gb. I have a feeling I resized ONLY the filesystem to 40, but the partition is still 100gb. How do I finish this?
I've just installed Unison. I created the default profile, selecting one of my subdirectories as the source. That done, the GUI disappeared, although a unison-2.32.52- process remained running. I can start another GUI session and, regardless of if I kill the old process, I can only choose my profile before the GUI disappears again. There is no opportunity to do anything else useful, such as selecting a destination directory.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been running 10.04 quite successfully, when I upgraded to 10.10, I have a problem with the newer kernels. If I let it boot into the latest one 2.6.35-23, I get the Ubuntu 10.10 splash screen for a second then a blank screen, same with 2.6.35-22. I have to run with 32-25 to get it to load the gui.
I have an AMD Sempron 2800, 1.6GHz pc, but I'm not sure if it's running 64bit.
I've been running Ubuntu 10.10 very smoothly for a while now. Decided to upgrade to 11.04 - managed to corrupt the hard disk the first time by letting the laptop hibernate part of the way through but reinstalled from a live CD of 11.04 and it's now working except for this issue.
If I shut the screen on my laptop (or press the screen off button) either the screen won't come back on or it will but frozen (I can move the mouse but not click on anything etc.) In this state music continues to play (from spotify under wine) and if I press my hibernate shortcut (power button) the computer hibernates, only to wake into the same situation. I've got a Dell Latitude D520, upgraded to a bigger hard disk and more ram - the ubuntu partition has 50gb. Windows is working fine.
Edit: I noticed a sticky thread which includes something about a blank screen but I think this is a different issue?
My new Thinkpad often overheat and shutting down suddenly.Today I download the F14 DVD and upgrade my F13 with it.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi have just put a Geforce 7300 GT graphic card into my machine the problem is the max resolution I can get is 1024x768 at 60 hz the screen is a benq fp71g+. also the screen goes blank when i click on the display icon in system settings. i know that the screen can be run at 1280x1024 so I don?t know where the problem is.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a double boot configuration with ubuntu 10.04 and windows xp when i start ubuntu the 'ubuntu' screen comes but the login screen does not appear. i tried to open ubuntu in recovery mode but it said:
I've tried using older kernels also just for info: my home and usr directories are in separate partitions & i've named my ubuntu partition as 'ubt'. i edited grub.conf file before this happened ( to comment out older kernel boot options) but grub is working porperly and i am able to boot into windows without any issues.
It is possible to not only have the progress of the shredding, but the time elapsed/remained/whatever as well? It would be great to be able to see the time elapsed/time remaining along with the percentage complete.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have installed Ubuntu 11.04 along side windows 7 ultimate. But the problem is as soon as I switch on my computer. There is only a blank screen with my TFT screen displaying a msg "Out of Range"
Then suddenly Ubuntu loads without showing any option to load windows 7.
My problem is that I can't log in to Ubuntu, as you've already seen in the title. Here's what's happening:
I turn on the computer. I see the GRUB. I press Enter. I see a blinking underscore (_) as if i was in a terminal. The underscore disappears and I can see my cursor, but nothing else. I can move the cursor, but that's all I can do.
I've seen some similar problem here on the forums, but he could log in, he just couldn't see the screen.roblem!
OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-31-generic. All updates are current.
Configuration -CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K, quad core 3.30GHz
Memory: 16GB RAM (10% used), 20GB swap-space (0% used)
Video: Two ASUS EAH5450 Silent cards, each with ATI Radeon HD-5450 GPU and 512 MB
Monitors: Sceptre 22", 1680x1050; both connected to one video card. The second video card has no monitors connected at this time.
ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX driverLSPCI output -
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The PC boots up normally into Gnome desktop environment. When I hit ctl-alt-[F1-F6], -The screens blank out. One screen gets no video signal, as evidenced by a blinking power light The other screen is completely blank (not even a blinking cursor) If I hit ctl-alt-F7, I get the Gnome desktop back. I have been able to determine that even if the screen is blank, and appears completely dead, the system processes my keystrokes. For example, if I pretend that I am at the log-in screen and type <username> <enter>, then <password><enter>, then 'xinit -fg white -bg blue -- :1 vt8'<enter>, the PC switches to virtual terminal 8, and shows a shell window. From that point onwards, my keyboard entries show up in white-on-blue characters, and the behavior of this shell window is perfectly normal. I can log into another Linux box using ssh, start a Gnome / KDE / XFCE4 / LXDE session and work on the machine normally; or start another X-session and a desktop environment of my choice. My guess is, the console is invoked perfectly well; it is set to display black-on-black characters.
What I Am Looking For:Confirm if my guess about black-on-black console is valid.
Suggest how I could get a screen showing white characters on black (or indeed, any combination I could read)
I've recently installed the 64bit version of WUBI on ASUS K50IJ with windows 7. Everything went smooth however when I try to boot into ubuntu, it shows that all the drivers are loading, I can even see the desktop background image for a second and then the screen goes blank. It is still ON however nothing is showing on it.
Pressing "CTRL+ALT+DEL" reboot the system.
even get access to the console for further debugging?
Anyway one day I start my computer and instead of starting normally it comes up with a screen which says GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta at the top. I selected the option Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-19-generic as I figured this is what normally loads without being prompted in the grub menu, but after this I got the ubuntu logo for a few seconds then my screen goes blank. My laptop is a hp510.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm a newbie so apologies if there is a trivial answer to this.
I (maybe somewhat rashly) tried to connect my tv to my laptop (Dell Latitude D400) running Ubuntu 9.10.
I plugged in the cable, went to the System>Display menu, where it had detected the model and make of tv (Samsung 19" LCD) (I think the resolution was 1650 x 1050 or similar). I clicked the box to activate the second monitor with the "Virtual resolution" adjusted. It told me to log out then log back in.
I accordingly logged out but then couldn't log back in. It had evidently changed the resolution not only on the 2nd monitor but also on the laptop monitor. A box was visible on screen but completely illegible/unclear since the laptop monitor couldn't display that resolution.
After a few restarts and button pushes it is now restarting at a terminal (I enter my username/password at a command prompt on an otherwise blank screen rather than the graphical interface loading up).
Question: are there any commands that could change the resolution back to its original settings then restart the Ubuntu graphic interface? Some thing similar to the "load with last known good configuration settings" option in Windows maybe.
