New kernel won't boot

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:08:00 -0800
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 03/02/2011 06:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Upgraded Maverick tonight...among the pieces upgraded was
> > the kernel. Attempting to boot with it leaves me at the
> > CLI logon prompt on tty 8. Switching to tty 7 shows the
> > boot process apparently never completed with the last
> > line being a microcode update.
> > 
> > Anyone else experiencing these sort of problems.
> > 
> > I am back on 2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:29 UTC
> > 2011
> 
> If you mean the kernel from the 'Proposed' repository;
> 
> working for me (both 32bit and 64bit):
> $ uname -a
>  2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:40:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux gg-laptop 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC
> 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Perhaps you can provide a little more detail?
> 

No need..I don't think.

This from syslog sent me to the X log...where I saw X tried but failed to
load the nvidia driver. New Kernel....new nvidia driver needed :)

Sorry for the noise.

Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop gdm-binary[908]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.156916 seconds
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop init: apport pre-start process (1102) terminated with status 1
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop cron[1107]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop anacron[1116]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2011-03-02
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop cron[1118]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop cron[1118]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop acpid: starting up with proc fs
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop init: apport post-stop process (1121) terminated with status 1
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop acpid: 36 rules loaded
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop acpid: waiting for events: event logging is off
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop anacron[1116]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop gdm-binary[908]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.210491 seconds
Mar  2 21:37:34 frank-desktop gdm-binary[908]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors

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Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>