Very new to Ubuntu, but I was able to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 with no problems. New to forum and couldnt find any help in other posts. Like everyone, I was itching to try the newest and greatest. Tried updating last week but had the "openoffice..." bug and wouldn't install. Tried last night and everything went fine, until I restarted the system. Now it won't complete the boot. It show the GRUB, and some other startups, but them blank screen. 10 min later nothing. Tried it 3 more times. I think I am stuck, right? New install?This is what I am thinking of doing- 1. boot from old cd to get my files out. 2. fresh install of 9.10 and be patient for the offical release. Is there anything else I could do?
I am trying to use Skype beta on my acer aspire one with ubuntu 10.10. The video runs brilliantly and i can also here my wife from the other end but she cannot hear me. Apparently something is fishy with my mic input. I tried alsamixer and everything is in unmute. My alsa version is 1.0.23. The only think she hears is a loud hissing noise which is normally my bat voice but she doesnt need to know that. I can record my voice in the sound recorder but nothing comes out in Skype!
April 8th, 2010 - Beta 2 release; April 22nd, 2010 - Release Candidate; April 29th, 2010 - Final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
If I have 10.04 beta 1, could I just continue to update and not have to burn another disk to install? Or do I have to burn the beta 2 and reinstall if I want it?
Every time I upgrade to the current beta releases (natty) the boot process hangs mostly because of nvidia desktop graphics problems. Luckily the system is still running and remote login to console prompt works too. Is there really no reliable way to reset the graphics (and the rest) to minimum configuration. I am really tired of having to try all the repair options to get the desktop running again. How can Linux ever become a reliable solution if everything takes hours to fix and not even the boot process stays the same from one version to the next.
I have XP and Ubuntu on my computer and both seemed to be working fine but now when I try to load into Ubuntu I get
Code: GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta 4 [minimal BASH line editing is supported for the first word. TAB lists possible commandvcompletions. Anywhere else tab lists possible device/file completions sh:grub>
I updated to Ubuntu 10.04. I had a nice dual boot system going with Ubuntu and Windows Vista. After the update I can't boot Vista anymore - and I really need itI don't know much about Grub, but I know enough about computers to edit config files etc.What settings should I punch into grub.cfg to get Vista to boot properly?
I have been using Ubuntu Netbook remix for a while and have been pretty happy with it. Over the weekend, the software did a typical update, and the next time I started the computer it goes straight to the GRUB command line. On the same day, I installed ATanks, so I am not sure which caused the problem, but I really don't see the game causing a problem with the boot loader.Installed through Wubi.v. 9.10Dual boot w/Windows; no problems booting until now.I do not know which updates were installed and cannot boot into Ubuntu to find out.At the GRUB command prompt, I tried to boot, but it did not load anything other than vmlinuz; when i searched to make sure I entered the correct partition (/dev/hda2), I noticed that, well, there were no partitions in /dev
I upgraded from Maverick to the Natty beta a little while ago. It all worked fine for a couple of weeks. Then, this morning, I was unable to boot. I got to GRUB, picked the first option and it went to the Ubuntu 11.04 with the dots, then returned this:
Code: fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 /dev/sdb2: clean, 330122/2170880 files, 7302496/8683520 blocks init: udevtrigger main process (367) terminated with status 1 init: udevtrigger post-stop process (372) terminated with status 1 init: udevmonitor main process (366) killed by TERM signal
My update manager still says "updated 3 days ago" and no updates have come through today. Does anyone know if NBR has been automatically updated TODAY from Beta 1?
I've got a dual boot system with both Vista and Ubuntu. After upgrading to 10.04 my Vista doesn't load anymore. I select it in the Grub menu and the computer just hangs.
Are there any known fixes for this? Where do I start? I'm an Ubuntu novice, but I'm an able computer fixer.
I have grub dual boot. I upgraded from ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 today, there was some questions about grub, and I marked all of the /dev. But now I cannot boot my windows partition.Windows XP is on the grub boot menu, but if I click on it, a black screen show up, and only a blinking cursor.When i boot ubuntu, I can read the ntfs partition.What do I have to do, to get windows xp to boot again?
I recently updated the kernel of lucid from 2.6.32-22 to the ""-23 release through update manager. Now whenever i try to boot the new kernel from GRUB the screen goes black and the computer stops responding with the caps lock and scroll lock lights flashing on the keyboard.
I can still boot into ""-22 fine and keep using ubuntu.
My first thought that the problem was the newer kernel itself so I tried to update to 2.6.33-5 from [url]but the same boot problem exists within this one also.
Because it goes straight into the black screen after GRUB I have no way of telling what has happened without error messages. Would this appear in any log files and if so which ones?
I recently upgraded Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.35 on x86/x86_64 from 2.6.35-22 to 2.6.35-23. and my system will not reboot to the upgraded kernel. To reboot I have to force shutdown my Toshiba L-450 laptop and the restart. This brings me to the GRUB screen were I can choose to use the previous 2.6.35-22. Normally do not see the GRUB screen as I am only running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on this computer. I have tried reinstalling linux-headers-2.6.35-23 and linux-headers-2.6.35-23-generic and got the same result.
I updated Grub2 and now I cannot boot my Vista or Windows 7. I am running Ubuntu 10.04. I updated because Grub2 was not updating to the newer kernels that were being installed. Now the new kernel is showing in the boot menu, boots fine into Ubuntu, but my Windows installs won't boot. Current installed version is grub-install (GNU GRUB 1.98-1ubuntu6).
Problem occurred after attempting to update firefox and configure evolution. Attempted to update firefox last night, it froze, attempted to open the system monitor to end the unresponsive process, and got a message saying the system was unable to support a new process because it couldn't fork. Did a forced reset, and the following now happens upon starting up. After selecting ubuntu (as it's a dual boot system with Windows XP) at the grub loader, blank screen, to this:
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mount: mounting dev/disk/by-uuid/5b24d4b5-9b8d-4608-9387-0d92756dcdd8 on root failed: invalid argument mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
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It will not run recovery mode, and I have no bloody what it means by init=bootarg.
EDIT: Nevermind- I'm going to try the methods listed in [URL], and hope the gods of fsck smile upon my lowly hard drive.
Wanted to try Ubuntu for the first time i used a wubi install and i made sure i had duel boot when i selected for the installment because id like to play some games every once in a while well i got some updates from Ubuntu today and after i installed them when i restarted my computer i noticed that windows 7 wasn't there to choose.
I have 10.10 installed idk if this will help but here # RESULTS.txt
Hey, yesterday I decided to update from 10.10 to 11.04.
I was using Windows Vista in dual-boot with Ubuntu but after updating Ubuntu to 11.04 I lost my dual-boot menu. It worked without problems before update. Now it starts automatically to Ubuntu log in screen.
I've tried so far:
1. Updating GRUB via terminal 2. Looked at my menu entries
Code: grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg menuentry 'Ubuntu, Linux-ydin 2.6.38-8-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
I backed up all my data and installed F15. The installation went fine. I did everything like I normally do. This is not my first rodeo so I am pretty sure I didn't do anything. When it goes to GRUB all it shows is Fedora and "Other". No memcheck, Fedora recovery, nothing. When I went to Other expecting to boot into Windows it said BOOTMGR not found. Normally I deal with Ubuntu though. The partition was not formatted. Everything is their. There is a file on the C drive called BOOTMGR. So how do I get back to being able to booting Windows? I am pretty good with Linux and I know my way around the terminal so you don't have to take it easy on me.
i know i have been having a lot of problems, but i keep having more this time, i ran update manager, and noticed that i was getting a new image, but i quickly forgot this. then, while installling the updates, it asked me if i wanted to keep my old menu.lst. i told it to keep my old one, since it worked fine. it then told me that i needed to restart, so i did. it got to where it would normally start loading grub, but my computer wouldn't go any farther. (would not load grub) i would think that it would still load my old image. i am writing this while running a liveUSB.
i ran the boot info script, and attached its output. i know this should be posted under installation&upgrades, but general help seems to be much more active. because of this, my father doesn't want me updating any more.
I have not been using my lenny 2.6.26-2-amd64 for about a month or more.I booted it today, and there were over 30 updates available, inculding some kernel header updates I installed all these updates and rebooted.Well, there are 2 new entries to grub menu:Linux 2.6.32-bpo-3-amd64Linux 2.6.32-bpo-2-amd64 (single user or recovery)in addition to my old kernels.So, I chose the bpo-3 entry, but it just sits there.I have to chose the kernel before the update. Is there something wrong with the update? dit: I just found out that synaptic manager does not show 2.6.32-bpo-3-amd64 at all as being installed.In fact, it is not in the header list nor the image list.
Booting into runlevel 3 and then issuing the $init 5, command leaves me this."binary handler for windows applications already registered" and the system hangs there.I yum removed wine, thinking that might be the issue, but that solved nothing.
I had a normal OpenSuse 11.1 setup, along with Windows XP, swap partition and /home partition. After my hd began failing (badblocks), I cloned the system to a different location (using ddrescue), updated the hd with a new one (bigger), made new partitions on the new hd (preserving the old locations, ex: /dev/sda1 ext3 on old hd still is /dev/sda1 on new one, but made changes to the partitions sizes to make them bigger), recovered all the clones to the new hd, fsck'ed them, recovered grub with install dvd then tried to boot.
On the first boot, it failed to mount / (/dev/sda1) and gave me a command line. I checked /etc/fstab and saw that, on the old setup, it was mounting the partitions based on the HD-id, which obviously changed. I fixed that to use /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc. Now, the systems boots fine. But, when I get to the graphical login part, the keyboard and the mouse don't work. It's a Dell Inspiron 1525 notebook, now with a 320gb samsung hd.
Hey everyone I'm pretty new to ubuntu/linux so please bear with me . I recently installed 10.10 on my new htpc. The initial install went great, until I went to install the updated driver for my graphics card. What I did was I downloaded the driver off of nvidia. Then I did these steps:
1. ctrl-alt-f1
2. logged in
3. sudo services gdm stop
4. I then located the driver package that I downloaded and ran it, it seemed to install fine (except for an error about some install script? but it let me proceed)
5. sudo services gdm start
It went to the gdm/ubuntu desktop. However I then connected it via HDMI, and the resolution was way off (top bar was not even displayed on TV) and I tried many different settings but no luck in fixing it. Next after restarting it did not automatically boot to the gdm/desktop. Instead it stayed at the command line login (the ctrl-alt-f1 screen).
tl;dr : 1. How to make it automatically boot to the gdm/desktop after I updated my gpu driver
2. How to fix the resolution for HDMI from my gpu to my TV. (DVI works fine
I have updated to the new kernel that was available from 11.2 and now I cant use my system.
It boots up into kde 4.3.5 and then right when its just finishing it freezes everytime and I hear that last tone of the bootup sound ring continually until I force a shutdown. Anyone else have this issue with the update?
I have just updated my Ubuntu linux to Ubuntu 10.4, not my grub menu isnt letting me boot to Windows Partition.The problem seems to be with grubs new update from using an editable menu.lst file to using a non editable grub.cfg file. Everywhere I look it states "DO NOT EDIT THE GRUB.CGF FILE". I am at a loss as what to do. I figured that the new configuration has screwed up the Windows Boot File. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this. I am not sure if it is a windows issue or an issue with the Grub boot menu.
Originally I had Ubuntu running on my machine. I installed windows beta 7 with a working dual boot. Get everything working in grub again. I decided to give Fedora a try and wiped my Ubuntu partition and installed Fedora. Everythings all good...except the reconfiguration of grub has left out my Windows 7 partition (nothing out of the norm) I tried manually adding windows 7 to /boot/grub/menu.lst but it's not working, when I try to boot into Windows 7 i get a little flashing "_" for a really long time and nothing happens.
I updated my kernel in slackware current but can't install lilo, when i was with my old kernel it gave an error about not finding the sda drives (they were named hda before the upgrade).I booted into the slackware 13.0 dvd and modified fstab and lilo.conf replacing hda with sda but lilo still gives an error of not finding sda drives.How can i install lilo so i can boot into my sistem??
Today I upgraded a few applications per the package updater and now I cannot boot with the latest kernel. It looks like the nvidia driver wouldn't work, I got a [FAILED] message, followed by two [WARNING] messages. Then the Starting atd message displayed and the screen flickered a few times, then froze. I reset with the button on the PC. I was able to log in using an older kernel: 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64. The newer kernel that wouldn't load may have been 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64.
I looked in the boot log and it had the log from the successful log; but, not the one that failed.
Code: [DnA@DellXPS ~]$ cat /var/log/boot.log Welcome to Fedora Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Starting udev: udevd[502]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-euvccam.rules:1
