libpam setup error

Bug #157559 reported by Adam Honse
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Bug Description

While updating what used to be a Celeron 500MHz (which died, and I replaced the motherboard with a new Sempron64 Socket 754 board) from 7.04 to 7.10, the installer gives me some trouble. First, when I booted the PC, it still was configured for the Celeron board, which had an i810 chipset graphics. The new board has an AGP nVidia GeForce4 MX420, so I had to exit to terminal by switching to terminal 4 or 5 (don't remember) and using terminal to install nvidia-glx, edit xorg.conf, and startx. Then I started to install the update. When it gets to libpam (forget the whole name), it prompted a dialog box, then the monitor clicked (my monitor clicks when it changes modes) and said that it was trying to start an X server on terminal 7. However, I already had one open on 4 or 5, so it ended up opening two servers and crashing the PC (the screen is all just lines, no true dialog or anything, it's just messed up). It's not important for me that you fix it, but it'd be nice for others who are updating (as I'd have to restart the PC no matter what unless I let it finish the update with the glitchy screen).

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James Collier (james-collier412) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

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