Hi, need some guidance with this problem please. I'll gladly provide any needed information to help fix this.
The problem
Kubuntu completely freezes my computer whenever I switch on the machine. The freeze happens after the grub menu passes, and I see the text Starting up ..., and then freezes. It locks up hard enough that I must reset the computer to force reboot. After the reset the computer boots to my desktop normally. If I switch off the machine, it will lock up the same way next time I switch it on.
What I've done
After power on I quickly press ESCape to see the grub menu. Then I choose to edit the kernel line Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic. From the kernel line I delete quiet splash so I can see the boot messages. Then I command it to boot. The last message displayed before the machine locks up is:
[ 16.443267] NET: Registered protocol family 2 (The numbers in square brackets change every time.)
Searched the Kubuntuforums on error message, didn't find any fix.
Googled for Kubuntu "NET: Registered protocol faimily 2". The 12,300 hits all seem to result from people posting their logs, not really helping my problem.
Posted this message in Kubuntuforums ( ) and in VirtualBox end user forums ( http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=3983#3983 ).
Possibly needed information
I am running Kubuntu inside VirtualBox 1.4.0 ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ), and it is the virutual machine which locks up. The physical host is my HP Pavilion dv8135nr Notebook running Windows XP Media Center SP2. The virtual machine with Kubuntu guest is configured as:
Sorry if this is too much of the wrong information. Don't know exactly how to proceed from here. Can anyone please help?
The problem
Kubuntu completely freezes my computer whenever I switch on the machine. The freeze happens after the grub menu passes, and I see the text Starting up ..., and then freezes. It locks up hard enough that I must reset the computer to force reboot. After the reset the computer boots to my desktop normally. If I switch off the machine, it will lock up the same way next time I switch it on.
What I've done
After power on I quickly press ESCape to see the grub menu. Then I choose to edit the kernel line Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic. From the kernel line I delete quiet splash so I can see the boot messages. Then I command it to boot. The last message displayed before the machine locks up is:
[ 16.443267] NET: Registered protocol family 2 (The numbers in square brackets change every time.)
Searched the Kubuntuforums on error message, didn't find any fix.
Googled for Kubuntu "NET: Registered protocol faimily 2". The 12,300 hits all seem to result from people posting their logs, not really helping my problem.
Posted this message in Kubuntuforums ( ) and in VirtualBox end user forums ( http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=3983#3983 ).
Possibly needed information
I am running Kubuntu inside VirtualBox 1.4.0 ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ), and it is the virutual machine which locks up. The physical host is my HP Pavilion dv8135nr Notebook running Windows XP Media Center SP2. The virtual machine with Kubuntu guest is configured as:
- OS Type Linux 2.6
- 512 MB base memory
- 32 MB video memory
- ACPI Enabled
- IO APIC Disabled
- 16 GB primary master
- Network Adapter 0 NAT
- USB Controller Disabled
Code:
uname -rvmpi
2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 unknown unknown
grep "protocol family 2" /var/log/* | awk -F ":" '{ print $1 }' | sort -u
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/dmesg.0
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/kern.log.0
/var/log/messages
/var/log/messages.0
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/syslog.0
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 16G 3.1G 12G 22% /
varrun 189M 108K 189M 1% /var/run
varlock 189M 0 189M 0% /var/lock
udev 189M 64K 189M 1% /dev
devshm 189M 0 189M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 189M 33M 156M 18% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile
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