[wuug-list] [Windsor Board] Michael: New member

[Xavier Spriet]

Hi Michael,

The packages on the live-DVD and the ones installed on the system may
very well be different, so if this is a known issue, I would suggest you
start by updating all your system packages. 

In order to accomplish this, I would suggest hitting ctrl+alt+f1 once
the greeter prompts you for your credentials, which will bring you to a
standard terminal. Enter your credentials, and issue the following
command:

sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

This should connect to the ubuntu repository and look for any security
or major bugfix update for your system packages, fetch the upgraded
packages and set them all up on your system.

Once this is done, reboot your system and see if your problem is
resolved.

If you are still experiencing issues, there are a few things you should
be looking at. The first one should be to look at a few important system
logs, and the second being to force Ubuntu to re-perform hardware
autoconfiguration for your graphical desktop.

To check out the logs, look for any information you feel might be
relevant to your problem by having a look at the output of the following
commands:

sudo dmesg -s100
sudo tail -n100 /var/log/syslog
sudo tail -n100 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

To reconfigure your X server, enter the following command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg


Good luck.

Xavier



On Thu, 2007-01-02 at 12:28 -0800, Windsor Board wrote:
> Author: Michael
> Username:  (bas2-windsor12-1128532216.dsl.bell.ca)
> Subject: New member
> Forum: The Kernels-And-Shells Department
> Link: http://www.windsorboard.com/read.php?6,595,595#msg-595
> Approved: Yes
> 
> Hey guys.  Just joined a group a few days ago.  Kind of found the website on accident when I was fishing around for some UNIX stuff on one of the University's servers.  I'm a student there, study comp sci AI.  Anyways, just saying hello.. and also looking for some help.
> 
> I just installed the new Ubuntu (6.10) on my laptop, and after having to fix a bad partition table that the partitioner included made, and loosing about 10GB's of data that was only partially backed up.. I've run into a few problems.  Thought I could pick your brains to help me debug it, since I really do like this Linux OS.  Anyways, for any of you using it.. I can run the live-dvd no problem, fully functioning.. no problems.. however.. I've done serveral re-installs on my hard drive of the OS, and I'm encountering problems.  The login opens up fine, sound is ok, graphics fine (though a friend gave me a command to run to change the xserver graphics.. though this didn't help).  After entering my user name and password, GNOME loading "box" pops up.. 1 out of 20 tries I'll get to my desktop, about 4 out of 20 tries I'll get my desktop picture to load, have full mouse movement, able to use (crtl+alt+).. but nothing else appears and I can't get around this, and the rest of the time.. I'm left staring at a blank light colored background with basically the same functioning commands.
> 
> Now.. if I leave it at any of these screens for a little bit of time the OS will crash.. just shut my laptop off.  If I run from the live-dvd I never encounter any problems.  Loads great.. runs great.. love it.  Any help or suggestions would be amazing.
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