boot stopped

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 27 Jul 2010 18:17:06 Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 Jul 2010 17:43:38 Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > On 07/25/2010 10:12 AM, Frédéric SOSSON wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > For two days my Kubuntu 10.04 boots incorrectly, I got a blue screen
> > > "Kubuntu" underlined by four or five points. At this screen I can
> > > enter CTRL-ALT-DEL or power button to reboot the machine.
> > > 
> > > Do you have any idea?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Frédéric
> > 
> > Try hitting ESC at the GRUB startup and then (e)diting the kernel line
> > that you want to boot from then (e)dit the vmlinuz line and remove the
> > "splash" and "quite" options at the end of the line. Then (b)oot and see
> > what happens.
> 
> Think that was supposed to be "quiet" above!
> 
> Recently, my computer was having trouble completing boot too, in the end I
> fixed it by adding the options:
> "quiet splash vmalloc=256MB"
> 
> to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line in /etc/default/grub.

I've just had to reboot the computer 3 times as it was locking up again just 
before KDM starts, looking at /var/log/syslog I'm seeing

kdm[1263]: X server startup timeout, terminating
kdm[1263]: X server died during startup
kdm[1263]: Failed to start X server. Starting failsafe X server.



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