installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

[adarkenigma]

i am fairly new to Linux.. i have used Ubuntu 6 live cd once ..but never installed it .. anyways .. i dual booted with windows xp.. everything went fine.. grub boot loader is fine too .. but when i select kubuntu from the loader .. it loads the boot screen .. and it goes from left to right like window .. and it disappears .. leaves me at blinking cursor .. i waited about 2 hrs and nothin happens.. but i can type at cursor .. i dont know what i did wrong ... but installation didnt gave me any error .. windows xp boots just fine.. but kubuntu wont boot .. can someone help? .. thanks

[coonj]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

Hey, I am having the same problem....this happens trying to boot directly off the CD as well (I installed it in text mode)

Another couple other things I noticed was the hard drive showed activity every now and then for the first 10 minutes. After about 10 minutes, the cursor would disappear. I let it sit for about an hour and nothing happened.

If I press the power button on my machine, the Kubuntu "shutdown" splash screen comes, and Kubuntu successfully unloads and turns the machine off.

are there boot commands that can be tried? and where would can they be entered?

thanks!

[adarkenigma]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

oh yes it happened with live cd too .. i installed it with text mode alternate cd.. and yes when i press power splash screen comes on .. and it unloads.. hopefully someone has a solution to this

[coonj]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

oh yes it happened with live cd too .. i installed it with text mode alternate cd.. and yes when i press power splash screen comes on .. and it unloads.. hopefully someone has a solution to this

Have you had any luck? I tried booting of the CD again. When the blinking cursor appears, I pressed ALT+F1 and it displayed what it was actually doing. It seems to be hanging at this point (these are the last 3 lines):

* Checking battery state... [OK]
Starting K Display Manager: kdm.
* Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]
_

^ That is the blinking cursor, which you can type at.

Hopefully that bit of info will help.

[The Liquidator]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

Hi

From the terminal (which is I assume what you mean by the balck screen with the blinking cursor) then try typing this:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then type startx

Anything good happen?

Ian

[coonj]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

...
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then type startx
...
Ian

I tried
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

This opened a configure wizard and auto-detection failed. I tried stepping through it as best I could. When finished, I ran startx and got:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

It was probably something I did, but I'm not sure what

[coonj]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

I just thought of this after the "No screens" error, and wanted to ask if it could be the problem...

I have an internal NVIDIA GeForce 6100 display adapter that doesn't have a monitor connected.
I use a NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT that has 2 monitors connected

Could it be trying to use the wrong display?

Another thing, during the xserver config wizard, it automatically named my monitor SCEPTRE, which the brand I have connected to the GF7600GT

[adarkenigma]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

actually ubuntu 7.04 beta desktop cd loads fine. but now the final release i will try ubuntu 7.04 final again.. cuz cd integrity checked failed in last one .. so i will re-download and post in progress.

edit:

okay ubuntu 7.04 failed too .. it doesn't even give me blinking cursor.. now i am tryin dvd .. when it gets downloaded .. i'll see how that works .. but someone has ti know what is going on with this.. i think it has something to do with graphic card "coonj" has Nvidia and i have ATI.. i dont know.. i'll try dvd.. see wat happens. if someone knows somethin please let us know.. thanks again

[icabod8]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

hmm, I had a similar problem. It seems that the nvidia drivers that come with feisty are screwy. The way I fixed my problem was to uninstall all the nvidia stuff that came with the dvd ("apt-get remove nvidia" maybe?), then went to nvidia.com/drivers and got the installation program. Then I booted to the rescue kernal and switched to run level 3 "telinit 3". Finally I ran the nvidia installer and it seems to be working.

hope this helps

[adarkenigma]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

@ icabod8 can YOU elaborate more on how YOU did that.. i am new to this but i have strong will to learn and dump the windows. i am ATI card.. how can i remove ATI driver before it installs at installation?

can someone tell what is difference between Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn and Kubuntu 7.04 beta .. since beta worked and final release didnt.. wat i mean to ask is what is different start up process or boot process ..

i removed the quite splash -- lines from boot command lines by pressing F6 and i stops at "configuring X " and then black screen comes up. can someone help?

[javierrivera]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

All this problems seen to be video card related. This is a mini-howto, designed to try to get you out of this problem as generic as posible:

1) Get the GUI working
Type:

$sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

A text mode wizard will start. You will be asked for a lot of questions. Just give the best answer that you can or leave the defaults for most settings.

When asked for the video card driver, choose vesa.
And when asked for the monitor configuration method choose Simple.

When you are back to the command line (errr... the blinking cursor , type:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

If you have your system installed (instead of a live CD) restarting should also work.

2) Install the correct video drivers.
Now you should have a GUI, a slow one, but a GUI.

Press the K-button, and select Add/Remove programs.

Search for your video card driver (usually ATI or NVIDIA). Mark it and click install.

When finished open again the K-Menu, select System Preferences. Now click on Monitor and Graphics. Go to Hardware Tab. Click the change button on the right of the video card. Select the propietary driver. Log out and log in.

Hope that it helps.

Javier.

[adarkenigma]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

@ javierrivera
i am sorry that i wasn't clear before when i said
" i removed the quite splash -- lines from boot command lines by pressing F6 and i stops at "configuring X " and then black screen comes up "

at that time i was runin Desktop cd .. but desktop cd hasnt worked on my comp since last successful run of Kubuntu 7.04 beta. so when running that it stops at "configuring X" and its just black screen

but when i have loaded OS with Alternate install CD ... it stops at

* Checking battery state ... [OK]

Starting K Display Manager : kdm.
* Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]

and nothin happens after screen just stops there, so i am not sure what is wrong

i tried "$sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and
"$ sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart"
but everytime i tried that it said login incorrect .. and tells me i need to root to use it

i tried sudo root .. but not sure how to use that. i am sorry for that.. but can help me. after 5 days i am juss not ready to give up on it yet.

thanks

[kubicle]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

i tried "$sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and
"$ sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart"
but everytime i tried that it said login incorrect .. and tells me i need to root to use it

If you get 'login incorrect', you need to login first (enter your username at the login prompt, and enter your password when asked)...after that, 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' should work (you can try 'sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart' first to see if you can get any useful error messages)

[adarkenigma]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

okay i logged in with correct username and pw.. and i reconfigured X server at best i can could .. and when i restart kdm .. it goes back to splash screen.. but nothin happens (no hard drive activity)... so i pressed ALT+F1 .. all it says kdm started ... and goes back to command prompt ... so i rebooted again ..and it stops again at

* Checking battery state ... [OK]

Starting K Display Manager : kdm.
* Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]

[javierrivera]

Re: installed Kubuntu .. but nothin shows up

Log-in again and type the following commands:

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

And post here the output.

Javier.