Lots of Kernel related brakage in Lucid (amd64)

[Danny Piccirillo]

Disabling the dri module altogether by putting an invalid parameter:
e.g. nouveau.blacklist=yes
allowed me to boot and update which fixed the issue

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:42, Danny Piccirillo
<danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 19:04, Scott Beamer <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>>
>> Flávio Etrusco spake thusly:
>>
>> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Danny Piccirillo
>> > <danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >> Damn, ran into this too, but i don't have an old kernel to fall back
>> >> on. Is there a way i can fix this without having to reinstall?
>> >>
>> >>
>> > You could try disabling kernel modesetting: While booting, enter the
>> > grub menu (hold the Shift key. If it fails and the boot continues,
>> > restart and try pressing Shift several times instead of simply holding
>> > it down).
>> > Once in the grub menu, press 'e' to edit the boot line, then add to the
>> > kernel line: nouveau.modeset=0. You may also remove "quiet splash" to
>> > see what's going on in the boot process. Press Ctrl+X.
>
> nouveau.modset=0 did not fix the problem, and removing quiet splash
> didn't allow me to see where it stopped either. There was too much to
> read going too fast and it all disappeared leaving a flashing "_" at
> the top of the screen which is the same thing i saw if i killed the
> splash screen before
>
>> I'm sure he's jsut reinstalled by now. Of course, the latest nightly
>> might be fixed now as well.... :)
>
> I have not yet reinstalled  although i am using the latest LiveCD
> right now to use the computer. I'd like to know that the issue as
> fixed and i can re-install from here without having the same problem
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>
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> .danny
>
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