Ubuntu

Cannot boot Edgy on Acer Aspire 5003 WLMi

Bug #62670 reported by Carthik Sharma
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Bug Description

I dist-upgraded one of the installations on my laptop to Edgy and ever since, I am unable to boot into the system. For a couple of minutes there is the usplash, and then there is a blank black screen that has a blinking cursor. I waited for 15 minutes or so, several times, but the system does not boot.

I have tried doing a ctrl+alt+f1 etc to see if I can get to the console where the messages are shown as the system boots - however the keyboard shortcut does not switch me to the console. In short, the system does not boot, and I have no way of seeing what is going wrong.

The only "suspicious" hardware I have on this system is the bcm4318 (broadcom) network adapter (Wireless) that I had to use with ndiswrapper in Dapper.

Though this is an AMD64 system, I use the -generic kernel (at least that is what I am trying to boot into). On dapper, I used a -k7 kernel.

Please let me know if I can provide any information. Please also let me know how to get the information. A photo with a digital camera would show a dark screen with a blicking cursor, right now. :)

Thank you.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Are you using -10-generic now? (Live cd -> chroot -> dist-upgrade)

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Yes I am. I figured out that I can see the system messages scroll by when booting up by editing the grub entry to remove the "splash" and "silent" options.

With the -10-generic kernel:
There are lots of errors regarding being unable to load ndiswrapper (loadndiswrapper).
The X server fails to start up
The boot-up process takes 5+ minutes at the step where it says "Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends".
It takes as much time again to restart cupsd and then restart the system log.
After 10 minutes I am still waiting for the computer to finish restarting the system log...

With the -k7 kernel:
I get errors regarding being unable to load ndiswrapper
The X server fails to start up and I get a message saying so
I finally get to the command prompt, and when I try to dist-upgrade, all the xorg packages are shown as being held back.

Now that I have a means of logging in to the system using the -k7 kernel, please let me know what files I can upload to let you figure out what went wrong during the boot-up process.

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Closing this bug myself, since I have since fixed the problem. The problem was the xorg*driver* packages are now *video* packages. Will file other bugs if neccessary. This problem is closed.

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