Hi there -
Fresh install of 10.10 on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop (sda3, ext4).
Dual-booting with XP (sda1, ntfs).
Everything works perfectly, except when I boot into XP and then restart and boot into Kubuntu, the startup hangs, hard:
- only hangs the first time i boot into linux after booting into windows, not subsequent times. This seems like a major clue, obviously, but i don't know what to take from that. Any ideas?
- it's not always at the exactly the same point that it hangs (i.e. maybe it's a video driver hang thing that just changes the mode (and thus the screen to black) at a slightly variable time in the bootup process, and then hangs)
- i have "quiet" and "splash" removed, so i see the dmesg lines scrolling by. It generally happens after a firewire-related line and a line about mounting sda3, then two lines about running "local-bottom" and "init-bottom", and those being "done". Then the screen goes blank, and then it stops. Sometimes there's a non-blinking cursor in the middle of the screen. Often not, just an eerie darkness. No disk activity, etc. On a successful boot there will next be a few lines from "init:" and bootchart, which i have installed but "bootchart=disable" on the kernal line. Sometimes those lines appear, and then it hangs, etc. But it never gets much past that.
- happens in recovery mode or regular boot
- no REISUB (but i'm 99% sure it's not functional anyway), no ctrl-alt-F1 terminals, no ctrl-alt-del, etc. Have to turn it off by holding down the power button.
- once (when i tried recovery mode after booting windows, which also hung) i saw a line about being "disconnected from Plymouth".
- i have all splash screens and greeters/etc turned off, and auto-login is enabled.
10.04 was running fine, though the kernel needed the i915.modeset=1 option to prevent hangs. My understanding is that 10.10 loads a different driver and thus this option isn't needed anyway (it doesn't help with this new problem, anyway, i tried...)
Any ideas/directions? I'm mostly curious about what could be tipping off the startup process that Windows was previously booted? Perhaps GRUB is sending in some info that changes the startup?
Maybe after a bad boot i should boot to a rescue CD and peruse a particular log for clues?
Thanks for any insight,
-c
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lspci:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx Controller
01:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware Loading Function
01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
Fresh install of 10.10 on a Dell Latitude D400 laptop (sda3, ext4).
Dual-booting with XP (sda1, ntfs).
Everything works perfectly, except when I boot into XP and then restart and boot into Kubuntu, the startup hangs, hard:
- only hangs the first time i boot into linux after booting into windows, not subsequent times. This seems like a major clue, obviously, but i don't know what to take from that. Any ideas?
- it's not always at the exactly the same point that it hangs (i.e. maybe it's a video driver hang thing that just changes the mode (and thus the screen to black) at a slightly variable time in the bootup process, and then hangs)
- i have "quiet" and "splash" removed, so i see the dmesg lines scrolling by. It generally happens after a firewire-related line and a line about mounting sda3, then two lines about running "local-bottom" and "init-bottom", and those being "done". Then the screen goes blank, and then it stops. Sometimes there's a non-blinking cursor in the middle of the screen. Often not, just an eerie darkness. No disk activity, etc. On a successful boot there will next be a few lines from "init:" and bootchart, which i have installed but "bootchart=disable" on the kernal line. Sometimes those lines appear, and then it hangs, etc. But it never gets much past that.
- happens in recovery mode or regular boot
- no REISUB (but i'm 99% sure it's not functional anyway), no ctrl-alt-F1 terminals, no ctrl-alt-del, etc. Have to turn it off by holding down the power button.
- once (when i tried recovery mode after booting windows, which also hung) i saw a line about being "disconnected from Plymouth".
- i have all splash screens and greeters/etc turned off, and auto-login is enabled.
10.04 was running fine, though the kernel needed the i915.modeset=1 option to prevent hangs. My understanding is that 10.10 loads a different driver and thus this option isn't needed anyway (it doesn't help with this new problem, anyway, i tried...)
Any ideas/directions? I'm mostly curious about what could be tipping off the startup process that Windows was previously booted? Perhaps GRUB is sending in some info that changes the startup?
Maybe after a bad boot i should boot to a rescue CD and peruse a particular log for clues?
Thanks for any insight,
-c
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lspci:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
01:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx Controller
01:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware Loading Function
01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)