Ubuntu Problem... Need Help

quagmondo23

quagmondo23

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After getting the live cd in the post and installing it I performed the boot it tells you to do. After that it goes to the GRUB screen, waits 2 seconds and says "Starting up and loading" in the top left corner, after that it goes black.

I found some tutorials and none of them worked. I tried recovery mode and entering "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and did the setup thing. That made no difference.

I tried pressing "ctrl-alt-f1" and it went to the logon screen, I could log in but I don't want to have to do that every time.

And just as I type, on the laptop beside me, it gets to the logon screen after about 20mins in the black screen. If anyone can help me resolve this or have had any other information or experiences, can you let me know. I dont want to wait for 20mins every time I turn it on.

Thanks in advance
 
Are you able to boot into any OS on that computer?

Also, did you install 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu?
 
Thanks for your help.
I am able to boot into Ubuntu by pressing ctrl-alt-f1. When I press that it says something like no resume boot image (saying that from memory) and then goes to log-in screen and works perfectly.

I ordered it off their site. I'd say 32bit is standard.
 
Did you install it?

From the command line after hitting ctrl alt F1 type this

Code: 
fsck -fy /

Let it do its thing
 
I put the livecd in and when it got to the desktop i double-clicked install and let it install. Do I need to do anything else (^^)?
 
quagmondo23 said:
I put the livecd in and when it got to the desktop i double-clicked install and let it install. Do I need to do anything else (^^)?
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You need to select the settings and partition the free disk space however you see fit. After the partition stage is done, it will write the changes to the disk, then confirm the install program has the correct settings. After that, just click Install (or OK, it's been a while) and it will install.

When it's done, you'll be given the option to reboot using the new install or continue using the Live CD. Select reboot and you should be good-to-go.
 
You configure GRUB during the install, and ctrl + alt + F1 should take you to a command line, not the log in screen
 
imsati said:
You need to select the settings and partition the free disk space however you see fit. After the partition stage is done, it will write the changes to the disk, then confirm the install program has the correct settings. After that, just click Install (or OK, it's been a while) and it will install.

When it's done, you'll be given the option to reboot using the new install or continue using the Live CD. Select reboot and you should be good-to-go.
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Thanks, I'll try that.

tlarkin said:
You configure GRUB during the install, and ctrl + alt + F1 should take you to a command line, not the log in screen
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It takes me to the log-in screen. If I press ctrl-alt-f1 while logged in it will take me to a command line.
 
Oh... I got confused. Imsati, what do you want me to do.

Tlarkin, when I do that from the command line after logging in it says
"/dev/sda1 is mounted.

WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage."

Doesn't sound to healthy, or happy.
 
quagmondo23 said:
Oh... I got confused. Imsati, what do you want me to do.

Tlarkin, when I do that from the command line after logging in it says
"/dev/sda1 is mounted.

WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage."

Doesn't sound to healthy, or happy.
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Depending on how the distro does things you may need to umount the / first then run fsck, you may need to boot from your CD to run it.

Or try booting in SUM (single user mode) and running it.
 
Ok. How do I do that? If you wouldn't mind could you give me instructions (I'm really new with everything to do with linux). What do you want to do? Is this necessary when I've performed the full installation from the cd?
 
I don't have an ubuntu box in front of me at the moment and since each linux distro is slightly different I would have to look at one to give you precise instructions.

If you boot off of your CD you should be able to do a repair on the install from the installer itself. That may just be the easiest way.
 
fsck = file system check, it checks and rebuilds the file system for any corruption, just like chkdsk for windows. It is a method of repairing file system issues in Linux.

I think a repair from the installation CD probably just does a fsck in the background most likely.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the alternate CD is the only one with the option to repair an install. Don't quote me thought.
 
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