Jaunty Boot-up Problem

[Steven Susbauer]

Graham Todd wrote:
> 
> I have a similar problem to those with a shutdown problem, although my
> install was from a disk burnt on my home machine from the Desktop .iso
> file.  A short time afterwards, here in the UK, my regular DVD with
> "Linux Format" magazine arrived and I reinstalled from that disk - with
> the same result.  So I checked the file against the HASH after
> downloading again, and then tried a clean install, which didn't work.
> Finally, I tried a clean install of Ubuntu 8.10 and updated it, with
> the same results.
> 
> By now, I feared that it was a hardware problem (my equipment is
> detailed at the end), so I Googled around to find a solution - other
> than buying a new desktop PC - and found that many users had
> experienced the same shutdown problems, but I wonder if anyone has
> experience the same start-up problem as me. 
> 
> The problem I am having is that Ubuntu doesn't seem to shutdown the
> system properly, even though the shutdown command has been given and
> confirmed, through the gui.  When it reboots, it gives an error message
> to the effect that Jaunty did not shutdown cleanly and it would have to
> check the drive, which it does - interminably.  Suddenly the screen is
> full of text with the instruction to Press Ctrl+D if you want to
> continue the boot process.  If I press Ctrl+D, all continues fine -
> until the next startup.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there an easy answer to my problem?
> Should I log a bug report?
> 
> If anybody knows how to correct this behaviour, please let me know!
> 
> [Using a home built PC with a Trendsonic case and an Asus motherboard,
> withan Intel Pentium D processor running at 3.00 Ghz. No graphics card,
> sound card, or separate internet card: all through motherboard. with a
> 150 GiG hard drive formatted into three partitions (/,/home,swap)]
> 
> 

The "screen full of text" is probably somewhat meaningful. It could be
that your drive has some kind of corruption, for example.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 260 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20090525/9c331eb4/attachment.sig>