The attached .xsession-errors file is strongly indicative of a machine
with at least a minimally functional Lubuntu desktop. Are you sure the
files you attached are from the correct machine? Was that file attached
after the machine *failed* to start the Lubuntu desktop session? A file
attached from a different, working session, whether it be on the same
machine or a different machine, is unlikely to be relevant to this bug.
"The disc check must have forced slightly different boot parameters."
The only two likely sets of parameters are those associated with "Try
Lubuntu without installing" and "Install Lubuntu". Do both of those
trigger this bug, or does only one of them trigger it? (If you have not
tested each explicitly, please do so now if possible.)
Also, when I select "Check disc for defects" it will not resume booting
after checking--it will only prompt me to press any key to reboot my
system. Is it different for you? Did you get a keyboard and person icon
at the bottom of the screen as I had described? (You shouldn't have--it
was a mistake for me to describe it that way, as that applies to the
Ubuntu desktop CD but not to the Lubuntu desktop CD which never displays
a graphical Try/Install menu, but which instead always goes to the
nongraphical boot menu.)
"May I suggest you download lubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso and test on
your own hardware?"
I have tested with the Lubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot i386 CD on a Dell
Inspiron E1505 laptop as well as on a VMware Workstation 8 8.0.0
build-471780 virtual machine (running on an Oneiric amd64 host with a
3.0.0-12-generic kernel), and I have tested with the Lubuntu 11.10
Oneiric Ocelot amd64 CD on a Dell Studio XPS 8100. On each of those
three machines, I tried both "Try Lubuntu without installing" and
"Install Lubuntu", and both worked--I was unable to reproduce this bug
in any of those six distinct tries.
It would be strange if I could have reproduced this bug, since a bug
like this would have been unlikely to affect a large percentage of all
systems, and still make it into the release version of the Lubuntu
desktop CD.
You had said, "LUbuntu 11.10 Oneiric liveCD boots to console. You never
get the try/install screen." But you must have gotten to the menu where
you can select to Try or to Install, because that is the same menu that
gives you the ability to check the disc for defects. Do you mean that
you never get the graphical Try/Install screen? (Not getting that is
intended behavior on Lubuntu, but obviously what you're experiencing--
where there is not GUI--is not intended behavior.) Is it possible that
you had booted while your computer was unattended, and the menu timed
out? (If that happened, that should be equivalent to manually selecting
"Try Lubuntu without installing." (I have tested and verified this
behavior with the i386 CD on the VMware virtual machine. I have not done
so on the other machines, but if that turns out to be the specific use
case that sometime triggers this bug, then I'll go ahead and do so.)
"Another user has advised me that he is also experiencing the same
problem."
Can that user create a Launchpad account if he does not have one,
subscribe to this bug, and use the green "This bug affects" link at the
top of the bug page to indicate that he is affected? If so, that should
expedite the process of getting developers to look at this bug. Until
then, this bug is unconfirmed.
As Phill Whiteside suggests, please try running "sudo service lxdm
start" and see if that works. Knowing whether or not it does is valuable
information.
I am guessing that this bug is either in lxdm or in ubiquity-dm (a
component of the ubiquity installer). The information you provide above
should make it possible to figure out which.
If the bug occurs when you select "Try Lubuntu without installing", then
(before attempting to start lxdm as Phill described) please post the
output of:
ps ax | grep -v grep | grep lxdm-binary
If the bug occurs when you select "Install Lubuntu", then (also before
that) please post the output of:
ps ax | grep -v grep | grep ubiquity-dm
If the bug occurs in both cases, please run each command (after select
the menu item to which it corresponds) and provide the output of both.
It's possible that these commands won't produce *any* output. That does
not mean you ran them incorrectly. Therefore, I recommending double-
checking to make sure you're entering them correctly--there will be no
mechanism to let you know you are wrong. (If you install openssh-server
on the affected live system and SSH into it, then you can copy these
commands from the clipboard into the Terminal window on the SSH client,
and you can paste the output, which decreases the risk of errors. It's
your choice.)
** Changed in: lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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