[Tfug] OS Puzzle

Mon Nov 3 20:50:47 MST 2008

Wow...all hail. I found on the ubuntu forum a simular problem. It was solved by removing compiz from a terminal prompt. Specifically, sudo apt-get remove compiz and compiz-core as well. What a trip. Thanks to all for your help...
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jeffry Johnston" <tfug at kidsquid.com>
> Sorry, I just saw that you said Ctrl-Alt-F1 didn't do anything.  Try booting
> into recovery mode (ESC when grub shows up), then you'll hopefully have
> access to at least a terminal where you can poke around.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Jeffry Johnston <tfug at kidsquid.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Was just upgrading an outdated system from 7.04, to 7.10, to 8.04, using
> > aptitude.  I didn't reboot during the process until the end.  When it came
> > up after the reboot, I had your tan screen with a mouse pointer.  I switched
> > to a terminal, (Ctrl-Alt-F1), and ran "sudo aptitude", then pressed g (to
> > apply changes), noticing that several pakcages were only partially upgraded
> > (I remember bash and hal, in particular).  Anyhow, this time everything was
> > able to complete the install.  So, I did "sudo reboot" and this time it
> > booted to the desktop.
> >
> > Your underlying cause of failure might be quite different from mine..
> > however where you're at suggests that X did load, so you should be able to
> > run X apps, like synaptic (set up your DISPLAY environment variable, usually
> > "export DISPLAY=:0.0").  I don't know if there is a way to search for broken
> > packages via command line (I think I got lucky because I was using aptitude
> > to do the dist-upgrade), but I know synaptic can do it.  You might also
> > check whether gdm is running "pgrep gdm", or trying restarting it "sudo
> > /etc/init.d/gdm restart"
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:53 AM, <arizray at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> "Halt" as in the screen proceeds to the blank tan screen with a cursor
> >> pointer in the middle. No further activity. ctrl+alt+f1 does not work or any
> >> other key stroke. I guess it would be fair to say that the system freezes.
> >> The rest of the code is not being executed after this point.
> >>
> >>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >> From: "Jeremy D Rogers" <jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu>
> >> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM, <arizray at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > As a bit of history several people helped me to try and solve what I
> >> > > perceived as a problem with the gnome desktop. Basically during boot
> >> the
> >> > > system halts right after login. I pc is a gateway P4 2.8ghz, 1.5gb
> >> memory,
> >> > > 80gb HDD machine. I was successfully using the machine until recently.
> >> > >
> >> > > After much troubleshooting I decided to swap the "bad" harddrive into
> >> my
> >> > > other machine and it worked perfectly. Had the Ubuntu (ver. 8.10)
> >> progress
> >> > > bar present during boot etc. Placing it the original machine still had
> >> the
> >> > > fault of course but I now know that the S/W on the drive is ok. T then
> >> tried
> >> > > to T/S further by removing the 2 memory cards, one at a time to see if
> >> one
> >> > > of the modules might be bad and no improvement or solution was found
> >> so I
> >> > > have to assume that the memory is o.k.
> >> > >
> >> > > The video card is part of the mother board and I don't know how to
> >> test it
> >> > > as it does display.
> >> > >
> >> > > I would like anyone's ideas.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > When you say it 'halts' do you mean it freezes, or it shuts down? If it
> >> > freezes, what does it look like? Does the screen go blank, or just stay
> >> as
> >> > it was, is there a delay, etc?
> >> > When it boots, instead of loging into gnome, can you switch to a virt
> >> > terminal (ctl+alt+F1) and login. See if it has the same behavior. Maybe
> >> you
> >> > can narrow it down some in such a way.
> >> > JDR
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > THANKS
> >> > >
> >> > > _______________________________________________
> >> > > Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> >> > > Subscription Options:
> >> > > http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
> >> > >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: "Jeremy D Rogers" <jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu>
> >> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> >> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 02:47:44 +0000
> >> Subject: Re: [Tfug] OS Puzzle
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM, <arizray at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> As a bit of history several people helped me to try and solve what I
> >>> perceived as a problem with the gnome desktop. Basically during boot the
> >>> system halts right after login. I pc is a gateway P4 2.8ghz, 1.5gb memory,
> >>> 80gb HDD machine. I was successfully using the machine until recently.
> >>>
> >>> After much troubleshooting I decided to swap the "bad" harddrive into my
> >>> other machine and it worked perfectly. Had the Ubuntu (ver. 8.10) progress
> >>> bar present during boot etc. Placing it the original machine still had the
> >>> fault of course but I now know that the S/W on the drive is ok. T then tried
> >>> to T/S further by removing the 2 memory cards, one at a time to see if one
> >>> of the modules might be bad and no improvement or solution was found so I
> >>> have to assume that the memory is o.k.
> >>>
> >>> The video card is part of the mother board and I don't know how to test
> >>> it as it does display.
> >>>
> >>> I would like anyone's ideas.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> When you say it 'halts' do you mean it freezes, or it shuts down? If it
> >> freezes, what does it look like? Does the screen go blank, or just stay as
> >> it was, is there a delay, etc?
> >> When it boots, instead of loging into gnome, can you switch to a virt
> >> terminal (ctl+alt+F1) and login. See if it has the same behavior. Maybe you
> >> can narrow it down some in such a way.
> >> JDR
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> THANKS
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> >>> Subscription Options:
> >>> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> >> Subscription Options:
> >> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> >> Subscription Options:
> >> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
> >>
> >>
> >


-------------- next part --------------
An embedded message was scrubbed...
From: "Jeffry Johnston" <tfug at kidsquid.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] OS Puzzle
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:18:01 +0000
Size: 15363
URL: <http://tfug.org/pipermail/tfug_tfug.org/attachments/20081104/a6656b7d/attachment-0002.mht>