Strange behavior from liveCD beta

[Alan Chandler]

I am new to kubuntu, with - up to now - a Debian unstable desktop running kde.

I have just made a CD-RW from the 6.06 beta live cd and tried to boot.  I 
downloaded it from bittorrent.

All appears to work fine to start with, but when it gets to the point of 
starting up the X server, I am left with a screen which is light blue, and 
absolutely nothing else on it.  I can move the mouse about fine, but any 
clicks etc do nothing.  There are no icons etc on the screen.

If I do CTL+ALT+F1 (or indeed any up Fn up to F6) I get a text console with a 
user (not root) prompt. Hitting return and I get a repeat prompt.  BUT 
attempt any command, the whole screen locks solid (such that CTRL-C doesn't 
bring the prompt back).  CTRL+ALT+F7 returns to the graphic screen, but that 
remains unresponsive.

Only way out seems to be a physical reset.

I tried running the "test the CD" option.  That ran for a while and eventually 
left me in exactly the same mode as the standard boot option.

Is this a known problem?  is there any way I can debug what is happening?

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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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