Hi Bob, Sorry for the delay. Your analysis of dual video displays is correct, I was able to install Ubuntu 10.04 after disconnecting one of displays. After completing installation and loading the Nvidia h/w driver was able to attach second display and configure it correctly. nvidia-settings running as sudo did complain when attempting to save xorg.conf but seemed to have made the changes correctly anyway on reboot. I disabled the raid controller during Ubuntu installation, however the issue does not appear to be connected with this h/w as I was able to configure raid0 (stripe) after successful OS installation and the system recognized the drives properly. Earlier when the system failed and I hit the reset button the following message was displayed on screen before shutdown, note - I've taken the liberty to abbreviate. GLib - WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)..... lots of I/O error output ... ThanksMalcolm
--- On Tue, 6/4/10, bbordwell <[email protected]> wrote: From: bbordwell <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug 555600] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alternate Install CD on Intel D875PB2 system, hangs indefinitely on boot To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, 6 April, 2010, 3:37 AM This sounds like a plymouth bug, you can try pressing alt+sysrq+k to see if that will unlock the computer. What type of graphics card do you have and how many displays do you have attached? ** Package changed: debian-installer (Ubuntu) => plymouth (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alternate Install CD on Intel D875PB2 system, hangs indefinitely on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555600 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: debian-installer Attempt to install Alternate Ubuntu 10.04 (Intel x86) on Intel D875PBZ motherboard. Installer completes the installation process but hangs at the first Ubuntu logo screen indefinitely. No visible error messages or console output available, none of the other terminals accessible in order to diagnose problem further. Also no visible network activity either. Repeated process 5 times with alternate configurations but same results. Note: 1. This system has on-board SATA raid, however no disks were connected for this test. 2. OS was installed on standard PATA port with a 40GB disk, system RAM 1.5GB. 3. Same problem appears with standard Ubuntu PC Desktop CD (Intel x86) 4. System has worked fine in past with Ubuntu 8.1 Jaunty which correctly installed on a 80GB raid1 mirror. To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/555600/+subscribe -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alternate Install CD on Intel D875PB2 system, hangs indefinitely on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555600 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
