Black screen upon starting up Kubuntu

[Keith Clark]

On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:59 -0500, Keith Clark wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:50 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> > Alan Dacey Sr. wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 08:14:56 pm Keith Clark wrote:
> > >> I have an up to date installation of Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 and I
> > >> cannot seem to start up Kubuntu.  It starts, I see the initial startup
> > >> screen, it fades to a black background.  Akonadi starts up fine but
> > >> turns black right after that.  I can hit Alt-F2 and the command window
> > >> pops up.  I can hit ctl-alt-del and the logout window pops up fine but I
> > >> cannot do much else as I cannot see any menu bars or backgrounds.
> > >> 
> > >> Any help would be appreciated.
> > >> 
> > >> Keith
> > > 
> > > I tried installing a fresh 10.04 A3 and had a similar problem.  I just
> > > drop to
> > > tty 2 and can't use the gui at all, tty 7 seems to be forbidden.  No
> > > amount of
> > > changing/purging/tweaking the nvidia drivers help at all.  I also can't
> > > get to
> > > boot from the cd on a stick, although that may be my motherboard.  I also
> > > installed the first 10.04 beta in a separate partition and upgraded it
> > > every
> > > time I booted into it.  I can not get any composting working in that one. 
> > > I have a feeling that something is still being hammered out in the video
> > > code
> > > and is not quite ready.  The only things I have not done is test with a
> > > new user and if that doesn't work then purge the entire KDE desktop,
> > > reboot, and install it again.
> > > I'll be following this thread if anybody has better ideas.
> > > 
> > 
> > Booting into older kernel (2.6.32-15-generic) isn't a problem. 
> > (and wait for further upgrades to sort this out)

This also does not work.  Same blank screen.

> > 
> > But if we really want to boot into 2.6.32-16-generic, then try one of the 
> > following......
> > 
> > [1]
> > Boot into recovery, select boot normal, at prompt, login and type either
> > 'sudo kdm start' or 'startx'  (preferably the former)
> > 
> 
> 'sudo kdm start' results in 'sudo: kdm: command not found'
> 'startx' results in Ubuntu starting, not Kubuntu.
> 
> > [2]
> > At blank screen (after attempting to boot as usual), press
> > 'alt' + 'ctl' + 'prt scr' + 'k'
> > 
> 
> Does nothing on my machine.
> 
> > I'd recommend [1].
> > 
> > 
> 
> Keith
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