[Bug 1447978] Re: After update from 14.10 to 15.04 boot stops at black screen displaying "Starting version 219"

[Bohdan Harasymiw]

I just went to System>Additional Drivers tab and had a look at what
drivers were available. On my system I have an NVIDIA Quadro 2000 video
card and seemingly was using the version 340.76 NVIDIA driver. Version
346.59 (tested) was available so I tried updating to that as it was
newer with no success.

I then booted up as before via Recovery mode>Resume normal boot and then
installed the X.Org X server- Nouveau display driver from the list of
Additional drivers. SUCCESS!!!!

Although the system boots up okay now without the need to go via
Recovery mode, it does seem as if it is a bit of a struggle to boot up,
with things being a bit slow. I am not sure whether that is related to
the problem or simply that Ubuntu 15.04 is slow to boot.

In any case, my system now boots, so from my perspective the bug is
fixed. However, from Mondane's comment above, he seems to be already
using the X.Org display driver, but having the problem. So there must be
something else in the background causing the boot problem that in my
case fortunately was fixed by changing drivers.

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Title:
  After update from 14.10 to 15.04 boot stops at black screen displaying
  "Starting version 219"

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have just updated to Ubuntu 15.04 and keep getting "starting version
  219" error. The only way that I can boot in to Ubuntu 15.04 is to hold
  down the Shift key during start up and then boot in to Safe mode.

  Without doing anything else, if I then select "Resume normal boot"
  Ubuntu 15.04 boots up okay.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:15.04.14
  Uname: Linux 3.17.4-031704-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Apr 24 18:52:51 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-30 (540 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-24 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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