ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 49, Issue 39
geo
yaktur at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 27 23:35:27 UTC 2009
Yea, I don't have any backwards steps to take on my system. So if there's no way to undo the damage system updates have caused me, my simplest solution is to just reinstall the system. Blah, not the way I wanted to spend the evening.
Thanks,
geo
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Today's Topics:
1. Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause black
screen? (geo)
2. Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
black screen? (Randall Ross)
3. Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
black screen? (Lawrence Houston)
4. Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
black screen? (Rudy Bartel)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: geo <yaktur at yahoo.com>
Subject: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause black
screen?
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
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History:
Dell Optiplex GX260, 2 gig RAM, Pentium 4 2.5GHz, On-board Intel 82845 video chipset, 64 meg video RAM.
I tried running 8.10 but had this problem where the screen would go black when logging in, and 915resolution isn't supported! The epitome of uselessness! So I went back - BACK - to 8.04 which had run well enough previously.
The only difference this time? Now I have "Normal releases" enabled in the Update manager - as opposed to previously where I only had "Long Term support releases".
Now this dumb black screen issue has come up under this installation of 8.04 using "Normal releases". I don't know why.
When it does occur (daily), I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login to the text DOS looking screen. The message on the screen says "No resume image", whatever that means. I cannot get the display manager to run. When I type StartX it comes back saying:
"Fatal Server error: Server is already active for display 0
If the server is no longer running, remove /tmp/XO.lock and start again
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up
xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error"
What's going on? How do I solve this so it logs back into the normal desktop screen?
Do I have to wipe the drive and reinstall 8.04 again? (I really hate doing that, such a waste of my time).
PS: At command line I figured out that I can reboot the machine by typing sudo reboot, then entering my password. Rebooting ALWAYS solves this problem, but it shouldn't be necessary!
Thanks.
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:05:47 -0700
From: Randall Ross <randall at tech-executive.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:14:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lawrence Houston <ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
black screen?
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, geo wrote:
> Dell Optiplex GX260, 2 gig RAM, Pentium 4 2.5GHz, On-board Intel 82845
> video chipset, 64 meg video RAM.
>
> I tried running 8.10 but had this problem where the screen would go
> black when logging in, and 915resolution isn't supported! The epitome of
> uselessness! So I went back - BACK - to 8.04 which had run well enough
> previously.
>
> Do I have to wipe the drive and reinstall 8.04 again? (I really hate
> doing that, such a waste of my time).
Here is a Link to my Posting on how to get an Optiplex 260's Intel 845G
On-Board Graphics to allow Logins to proceed "Normally" under Ubuntu 8.10
(that said Ubuntu 8.04 occasionally has problems with its Logins):
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/2009-March/005724.html
With some the above mentioned work arounds in place I just attempted a
CD-ROM Based Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04, which left my Intel
845G's Graphics in such a "Jumbled" State that I did NOT have a "Usable"
Login Screen (although Remote NX Sessions were "Fine")!!! Which I then
followed with a Clean Installation of Ubuntu 9.04, which at first was NOT
"Usable" until I completed a dpkg "Check" and xorg "Repair" from Ubuntu
9.04's "Rescue" Console... After which Ubuntu 9.04 seems "Good" on my
Optiplex 260 with its Intel 845G On-board Graphics, although that has only
been since yesterday???
Intel 845G Graphic is mentioned as a "Known" Problem the Release Notes for
both Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04!!!
NOTE: After Ubuntu 9.04 was finally coaxed into "Behaving", I found it
much faster than Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 had been on the same Optiplex
GX260!!!
Yes "Optiplex GX60" in my March Posting was a "Typo"...
Lawrence Houston -- (ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org)
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:15:15 -0700
From: "Rudy Bartel" <rebartel at vcn.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04, suddenly why does logging back in cause
black screen?
To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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I ran into a similar problem with my machine that has integrated Intel 845G video. When I first installed 8.04, it was fine, but after some time (possibly weeks) Ubuntu would freeze at bootup with a black screen after the logo/progress stage but before the login stage. It seemed that one of the automatic updates to the Linux kernel had introduced the problem. The work-around that I used to allow me to boot relatively normally was:
- initiate bootup of the machine
- at the start of the bootup process, press the ESC key to show the list of Linux kernel options
- select one of the previous kernel versions (i.e. not the one at the top of the list)
- continue to bootup normally
However, unlike yours, my problem seemed to have been resolved after I upgraded to 8.10, and so far 9.04 seems to be ok too.
--
Rudy.
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:09:04 -0700, geo <yaktur at yahoo.com> wrote:
> History:
>
> Dell Optiplex GX260, 2 gig RAM, Pentium 4 2.5GHz, On-board Intel 82845
> video chipset, 64 meg video RAM.
>
> I tried running 8.10 but had this problem where the screen would go
> black when logging in, and 915resolution isn't supported! The epitome of
> uselessness! So I went back - BACK - to 8.04 which had run well enough
> previously.
>
> The only difference this time? Now I have "Normal releases" enabled in
> the Update manager - as opposed to previously where I only had "Long
> Term support releases".
>
> Now this dumb black screen issue has come up under this installation of
> 8.04 using "Normal releases". I don't know why.
>
> When it does occur (daily), I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login to the text DOS
> looking screen. The message on the screen says "No resume image",
> whatever that means. I cannot get the display manager to run. When I
> type StartX it comes back saying:
>
> "Fatal Server error: Server is already active for display 0
> If the server is no longer running, remove /tmp/XO.lock and start again
>
> Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up
>
> xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unable to connect to
> X server.
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error"
>
> What's going on? How do I solve this so it logs back into the normal
> desktop screen?
>
> Do I have to wipe the drive and reinstall 8.04 again? (I really hate
> doing that, such a waste of my time).
>
> PS: At command line I figured out that I can reboot the machine by
> typing sudo reboot, then entering my password. Rebooting ALWAYS solves
> this problem, but it shouldn't be necessary!
>
> Thanks.
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