** Description changed: - This is being somewhat annoying to track down, so I'm posting with the - minimal information I have in case there's a quick, known fix -- or, - vexingly, if it helps confirm I'm the only person in the world who can - reproduce this problem, since there seem to be other users describing no - issue. + [Edited - problems still observed with 10.10 RC] - Symptoms: Attempting to boot from the LiveCD, or from a fresh install - with the alternate CD, results in a hang around the time the boot splash - animation reaches the final 'dot.' The boot splash animation also comes - up with a corrupt/'psychedelic' palette. The graphic stays frozen on - the screen, the fan runs, and the keyboard becomes unresponsive, making - troubleshooting annoying. + Symptoms: Attempting to boot 10.04 from the LiveCD or from a fresh + install with the alternate CD, and 10.10 RC LiveCD, results in a hang + around the time the boot splash animation reaches the final 'dot.' The + boot splash animation also comes up with a corrupt/'psychedelic' + palette. The graphic stays frozen on the screen, the fan runs, and the + keyboard becomes unresponsive, making troubleshooting annoying. - Booting the alternate CD to the console works. Somewhat quirkily, an - install from the alternate CD also worked when rebooted after the - apparent hang, but something (a post-install script?) got addled, - because I can both reach the console or startx with no problem, but dbus - was not starting properly and gdm et al. refused to work. I looked - around for the obvious culprit on *that* but couldn't find it, and right - now I'm trying to remove variables and achieve a normal installation, - not add more. Since the base system does boot fine in that - circumstance, I guess I'm looking at something more X or firstboot- - related, but I don't know what. + Booting the 10.04 alternate CD to the console worked. Somewhat + quirkily, an install from the 10.04 alternate CD also worked when + rebooted after the apparent hang, but something (a post-install script?) + got addled, because I can both reach the console or startx with no + problem, but dbus was not starting properly and gdm et al. refused to + work. I looked around for the obvious culprit on *that* but couldn't + find it at the time, and now that I have returned to the problem I'm + focusing on getting 10.10 up. Booting/installing 9.04 or thereabouts actually works, so it does not - seem to be an innate hardware problem - but sitting through upgrades - from there to 'present' is a workaround too awkward to test just yet. - + seem to be an innate hardware problem. Hardware configuration: Dell Latitude D600 laptop; 512MB RAM; 1024x768 LCD with what identifies as a RV250; only hardware quirks are use of a UDMA CompactFlash card in place of a disk and use of a generic Realtek-based miniPCI wireless card. + --- - If someone can summarize the parameters necessary to turn graphical boot off and watch dmesg/console up to the point that it hangs, I'd appreciate it. + I had asked if someone could summarize the parameters necessary to turn + graphical boot off and watch dmesg/console up to the point that it + hangs; thanks to Gordon Hopper for obliging. + + Using 10.10 RC on a USB stick [my CD burns have complained about a sense + error on one particular sector on multiple devices]: + + - With default options, but the 'splash' and 'quiet' removed, I make it to: + "* Setting sensors limits" + + - With 'text', and the 'nomodeset' and 'acpi=off' boxes checked for good measure, I make it to: + "* Pulseaudio configured for per-user sessions" + + Somewhere between these extremes, it can freeze at the message between them, this being: + "* Starting Kernel Oops catching service kerneloops" + + I have gone so far as to unplug the "HD" (a CF card in CF-to-IDE + carrier) and to attempt to set BIOS options as conservatively as + possible [but perhaps I have missed something]. + + This does not seem to be the best way to debug the problem. Insight / + further suggestions are appreciated - surely there's a way to make + booting more verbose than this?
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