On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:46:00PM +1100, Bruce Badger wrote:
> In trying to solve a problem with recording sound using the built in
> mic on my Thinkpad T21, I thought I'd give the latest "flight" of
> Ubuntu a try.
>
> I burned the Flight 5 Ubuntu CD and went through the install to the
> point where the CD was ejected and the system rebooted. Everything
> seemed OK up to that point.
>
> When the system rebooted, I saw the graphical boot stuff with the
> messages scrolling on the brown screen under the Ubuntu logo. Then
> the screen went blank except for a non-blinking cursor in the top left
> of the screen, then I heard the tom-tom drum sound that usually
> accompanies the opening of the logon screen ... and that's it.
>
> The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else
> happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly respond
> to any keyboard input (e.g. trying to select other ttys).
>
> Help/guidance would be much appreciated.
This probably won't help, but....
I came back to Ubuntu 5.10 to find the X-server crashed with the following
console message:
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*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
information.
xinit: connection to X server lost.
xauth: /home/david/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored
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Which was repeated verbatim in the logs :(
I switched to consoles 2, 3 and then 7 (!) and then system lost contact with the
monitor completely - no screen and no way of knowing if i had keyboard.
To solve it, I ssh'd in and rebooted. It's been fine since.
I'm not sure that it helps you, but the symptoms are similar.
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