boot stopped

[Frédéric SOSSON]

The problem was fixed this way at my side:

# vi /etc/default/grub
- suppress quiet splash from this line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
# update-grub

regards,

On 28 July 2010 15:39, Mark Fraser <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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