It has been a considerable period of time (at least in terms of the distribution cycle) since I reported this bug. Since that time I have upgraded to Gutsy final, and kept up with the various updates. I have also done further research, here and in the Ubuntu Forums, and believe that this may be a conflict between the NVidia proprietary drivers and Compiz-Fusion. There have been numerous reports on the Forums concerning this, or a very similar problem, and it would appear that it always involves NVidia proprietary drivers (whether from the repositories or directly from NVidia) and Compiz-Fusion being active when the machine is shut down (and therefore when the machine is re- booted).
Background: I run a Dell Inspiron 530N that came with Ubuntu 7.04 already installed. When I decided to try the 7.10 tribes, I repartitioned to allow myself to dual boot, thus providing myself with a stable installation for normal use, and a "playground" for trying new things. Events (not linked, but coincidental to each other), caused me to loose the ability to boot either of them. One of those events was the but posted above. I ended up installing Gutsy Gibbon on both partitions, as a result of it, just after the final was released. Because of the bug, I kept one partition set up with the generic NVidia driver. On the other partition, I installed the proprietary NVidia driver using Envy. In playing with the second partition, I determined that I could run Compiz-Fusion, however, I was careful to be sure to drop back to NO visual effects before rebooting my system. The few times I tried this Compiz-Fusion behaved as it should. There was, of course, no effect on the first partition, as the generic NVidia drivers do not support the Compiz-Fusion visual effects. I have since installed the proprietary NVidia drivers on the first partition, but have not activated Compiz-Fusion on that partition at all. Still no effect or problem on boot-up. I have no attempted to shut down the system with Compiz-Fusion active. In fact, I am somewhat reluctant to try, for a couple of reasons. First, Visual Effects are fun to show off, but not a necessary part of my computer life-style nor that important to me. I am just as comfortable without them, and actually find them to be a distraction at times. Second, I've taken on other responsibilities with the Team of which I'm a member since the bug was reported, and am reluctant to risk loosing data again. having to do dual installs due to problems unrelated to eachother was a bit traumatic to me, particularly since I'm so new to a great deal that has happened and is happening with Ubuntu. It may be years before I am actually comfortable with doing low-level maintenance/debugging in Ubuntu. This is partly my fault, as I've only just recently had the leisure to be actively interested in trying to fathom out some of the intricacies of Linux, Gnome, and the problems that can occur. I apologize that I cannot be of more help at the present time, but I feel my time is best served helping to advance the Ubuntu-Arizona Team LoCo. That, coupled with the fact that Compiz-Fusion just doesn't hold the interest for me that it does for others, lowers the priority of this particular problem for me. I do thank you for, and appreciate your interest, and hope that it is resolved at some time. -- Gutsy Tribe 5, black screen on startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
