Fwd: Re: Feisty vs Dapper

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Rehan Afzal wrote:

>   Yes, I can Esc and I tried to boot with both the other options listed
>   there. I tried fsck but it just wouldn't boot.

We're trying to help here but you're not answering our questions.  Please
go into grub, turn off splash and quiet, boot it and tell us where the boot
fails and with what error.  Otherwise, you might as well just tell us
"computer says no!"[1].

>   Well Now that you guys have taken interest I have started
>   experimenting. Interesitngly the Acer has now started behaving ( by
>   itself ) and can start up Edubuntu after a hard boot. However I cannot
>   shut it down. It just hanfs when I try yo shut it down and the otions
>   screen to log out / restart etc comes up.

Does it freeze with the gnome session still visible or does it partially
shut down and freeze?

Could you press <ctrl><alt><F1>, login and type "sudo halt".  Then see if
you get any errors.  Also, does anything appear in the logs?

>   The Dell Latitude C840 however cannot tolerate a hard boot.
>   Also it take 1 hour to install edubuntu and just 20 minutes for Ubuntu ?????? 
>   It sorta stops at the 85% mark for a very long time !

I'd say that's probably the ltsp install process.  It is quite slow but
Ubuntu doesn't install ltsp.

Gavin

[1] http://youtube.com/watch?v=0VFSvLyIIdE