[UbuntuDallas] system hangs at login

[Brian Rogers]

Ken,

Try booting into recovery mode while plugged into a wired network; going to
the shell prompt; and using apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade to get
(among other updates) a recent kernel update.  My in-laws were recently
bitten by a kernel bug when they upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10.  Their laptop
kept crashing.  I don't know if the recent kernel update fixes the bug.
When my in-laws needed their laptop back, there was no kernel update out
yet, so I downgraded their laptop (backed up /home, reformatted, reinstalled
9.04, then restored /home).

Let us know how it goes.

/* Brian Rogers, professional geek, coffee achiever */



On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Mr Kenneth Bennett <keneb01 at att.net> wrote:

>  Hi, I just loaded ubunto9.10 with the Gnome desktop.  Load was great, no
> problems, good color sharp crisp full screen windows.
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> I take out the disk, hit return, and the system reboots.  Login screen
> comes up, test login by logging in with wrong passwd.  I get a beep and
> return to login screen.
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> I then login with real user and passwd.  The system then hangs; mouse
> doesn’t move screen does not change.
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Ken Bennett
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