Kubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop freezes ── despite trouble-free installation!
Greetings from Ireland! Having just completed a trouble-free, clean new installation of Kubuntu 12.04 LTS, and then having logged in successfully with my password, I am both dismayed and puzzled thereupon to be faced with an unresponsive and virtually frozen KDE desktop.
OK, the screen itself looks just as a Kubuntu desktop should look, with application launcher, clipboard, sound volume, correct time/date, etc, at the bottom of the screen. But when I go to click on the application launcher, nothing whatsoever happens; likewise also, when I try to left- or right-click anything else which normally would be clickable on a KDE screen. But, no, the desktop has all but frozen up on me, preventing any further human interaction! Grrrr!
Then unexpectedly, 30 seconds or so later, the Kubuntu application launcher yawns and comes out of its catnap slumber. However, as if in protest, it makes only a PARTIAL appearance, lest it be viewed on-screen with its trousers down! I persist, until after further long waits, the application launcher reappears eventually, this time properly dressed. But any optimism on my part is dispelled quickly, when I discover that, despite much a-clicking, no way can I open up ANY application whatsoever, nor indeed venture at all beyond Favourites to any of the other four options. Thus, unable to proceed further and also prevented from logging-out correctly, I have no alternative but to switch off my PC, restart with the original install/live DVD, and enter the Rescue mode.
Original DVD integrity and memory tests pass with flying colours; no hard-disc partitioning had been necessary during installation, due to my having allocated the entirety of a brand new HDD to Kubuntu; so I decide to try a different root file system.
I decide on /dev/sda2, but I am notified this failed to mount; so I opt instead for /dev/sda1, which gives me the thumbs-up. I reboot the system, log in again successfully, but annoyingly face again exactly the same freeze-up problem I have described above. So I am back to square one and I am not really sure now just what other tests usefully I should perform.
I should mention here that this clean new Kubuntu 12.04 LTS installation was made on a brand-new 1TB Western Digital ‘Red’ NAS SATA 64MB-cache Hard Drive #WD10EFRX, which conveniently I happened to have as a spare. My original idea had been to use two such NAS discs in a two-disc RAID-1 set-up within my Siemens desktop PC, but subsequently I decided abandon this methodology in favour of X-RAID within a 4-bay Netgear NAS. This frees up my desktop PC for all-Linux dual-booting.
My understanding from Western Digital's website is that their ‘Red’ NAS hard drives can be used also in desktop PCs. Correct? If not, could this be the cause of the above Kubuntu freeze-up?
Fellow penguins, I shall appreciate very much some kind, knowledgeable citizens of Planet Kubuntu advising me, please, just what I may be doing wrongly and just how best I may be able fix this wholly unexpected post-installation problem. For your information, my PC system “techspecs” are as shown below. Thank you very kindly, folks!
MagnifiKat
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Siemens “Esprimo” P5616 desktop | Fujitsu D2461-A12 micro-BTX mobo |
KDE 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" | Linux 2.6.37.6-24-desktop x86_64 |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2·4GHz dual-core CPU | DVD SuperMulti |
2GB DDR2-667MHz dual-channel RAM | nVidia MCP51 Ethernet |
nVidia GeForce 7300LE 256MB TrueMemory | openSüSE 11.4 (X86-64) |
OK, the screen itself looks just as a Kubuntu desktop should look, with application launcher, clipboard, sound volume, correct time/date, etc, at the bottom of the screen. But when I go to click on the application launcher, nothing whatsoever happens; likewise also, when I try to left- or right-click anything else which normally would be clickable on a KDE screen. But, no, the desktop has all but frozen up on me, preventing any further human interaction! Grrrr!
Then unexpectedly, 30 seconds or so later, the Kubuntu application launcher yawns and comes out of its catnap slumber. However, as if in protest, it makes only a PARTIAL appearance, lest it be viewed on-screen with its trousers down! I persist, until after further long waits, the application launcher reappears eventually, this time properly dressed. But any optimism on my part is dispelled quickly, when I discover that, despite much a-clicking, no way can I open up ANY application whatsoever, nor indeed venture at all beyond Favourites to any of the other four options. Thus, unable to proceed further and also prevented from logging-out correctly, I have no alternative but to switch off my PC, restart with the original install/live DVD, and enter the Rescue mode.
Original DVD integrity and memory tests pass with flying colours; no hard-disc partitioning had been necessary during installation, due to my having allocated the entirety of a brand new HDD to Kubuntu; so I decide to try a different root file system.
I decide on /dev/sda2, but I am notified this failed to mount; so I opt instead for /dev/sda1, which gives me the thumbs-up. I reboot the system, log in again successfully, but annoyingly face again exactly the same freeze-up problem I have described above. So I am back to square one and I am not really sure now just what other tests usefully I should perform.
I should mention here that this clean new Kubuntu 12.04 LTS installation was made on a brand-new 1TB Western Digital ‘Red’ NAS SATA 64MB-cache Hard Drive #WD10EFRX, which conveniently I happened to have as a spare. My original idea had been to use two such NAS discs in a two-disc RAID-1 set-up within my Siemens desktop PC, but subsequently I decided abandon this methodology in favour of X-RAID within a 4-bay Netgear NAS. This frees up my desktop PC for all-Linux dual-booting.
My understanding from Western Digital's website is that their ‘Red’ NAS hard drives can be used also in desktop PCs. Correct? If not, could this be the cause of the above Kubuntu freeze-up?
Fellow penguins, I shall appreciate very much some kind, knowledgeable citizens of Planet Kubuntu advising me, please, just what I may be doing wrongly and just how best I may be able fix this wholly unexpected post-installation problem. For your information, my PC system “techspecs” are as shown below. Thank you very kindly, folks!
MagnifiKat
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Siemens “Esprimo” P5616 desktop | Fujitsu D2461-A12 micro-BTX mobo |
KDE 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6" | Linux 2.6.37.6-24-desktop x86_64 |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2·4GHz dual-core CPU | DVD SuperMulti |
2GB DDR2-667MHz dual-channel RAM | nVidia MCP51 Ethernet |
nVidia GeForce 7300LE 256MB TrueMemory | openSüSE 11.4 (X86-64) |
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