Installation Conundrum

[jonni]

Hi - I Hope someone can help with this, I feel a bit newbie...

Just managed to install kubuntu 9.10 64bit version, as a dual boot with (at the moment) debian, which is a 32bit version and working fine.

During the install i needed to switch to safe graphics mode as the line "starting init crypto disks" kept appearing and then nothing happened (left it overnight even!).

Using the safe graphics mode i managed the install, but now, when i boot from the hard drive i just get the command line login (which does login to my username).

In addition to all that, from the first time i put the CD in the drive the initial recognition takes ages (3 to 4 minutes) before continuing. What have i done to deserve these problems?

Could the problems be cos of the dual boot 32/64bit issue (debian 32bit works fine with my graphics card)?
or maybe i am just cursed...

HELP

jonni

[natman]

Re: Installation Conundrum

Hi,
I am not sure about the lack of graphics problem, but i had a similar issue with the boot up hanging for 3 min on my last install.
Check

sudo fdisk -l

is there any warning about partitions? if so that might be your problem - only a guess. Anyway i "solved" the problem by a fresh install - sorry not much help.

[dibl]

Re: Installation Conundrum

Could the problems be cos of the dual boot 32/64bit issue

No.

or maybe i am just cursed...

Possibly.




Seriously, the first thing I would suspect is the possibility of a bad burn of the CD. Did you (a) verify the md5sum on the downloaded ISO file, and (b) burn it at 4X or 8X speed?

The symptom of "boots to text console", with no other apparent problems, usually indicates a video framebuffer issue. Take a look at #2 on the FAQs in my signature. You can press F4 on the boot menu, and then try different options to get past that problem.

[jonni]

Re: Installation Conundrum

thanks for your help - it turns out that the solution was patience....
firstly, exactly 3 minutes was taken to tell me that i had a "udevadm settle timeout 180s", with usb 1-3: config #1 chosen from 1 choices.

After that i got to the manual login screen, and again, 3 miutes (180s) was taken before the kde splash came up and all was okey dokey, except with very small resolution, which i tried to change but all other resolutions gave me junk.

When i look at the screen log the following is displayed "vdevd [133]:worker [138] failed devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02:0" and in another place "/sys/devices/pci000.../dim/controlD64(1000)" followed by "dim/card 0 (1001)".

What is going on here? I have a new computer with a simple intel graphics card, why is kubuntu throwing up these issues?

any help would be appreciated...

[dibl]

Re: Installation Conundrum

I think you're going to have to tell the rest of the story before anyone will have a clue how to help.

- what is the make and model of your computer?
- which version of Kubuntu are you attempting to run?
- what is plugged into the USB ports when you try to boot?
- use lspci -v to list the main components of your system, and post that

[jonni]

Re: Installation Conundrum

ok dibl - here goes

the computer is "home built" - Intel Core 2, 2GB ram, currently dual boot with debian 32B & kubuntu 9.10 64Bit (KDE4.3) - i.e. the latest version

I think the usb device causing that problem is the logitech camera.

here is the lspsi....
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 2e30
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 2e32
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at fe400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size = 4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size = 256M]
I/O ports at dc00 [size = 8]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 0397
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at feaf8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size = 16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fdf00000-00000000fdffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: feb00000-febfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fde00000-00000000fdefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27c8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27c9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d480 [size = 32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27ca
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d800 [size = 32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27cb
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at d880 [size = 32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at feaf7c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bri
dge (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27b8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27df
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 01f0 [size = 8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size = 1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size = 8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size = 1]
I/O ports at ffa0 [size = 16]
Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
Kernel modules: piix

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27c0
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d080 [size = 8]
I/O ports at d000 [size = 4]
I/O ports at cc00 [size = 8]
I/O ports at c880 [size = 4]
I/O ports at c800 [size = 16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 27da
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 0400 [size = 32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 8168
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 221
I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
Memory at fdeff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size = 4K]
Memory at fdef8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size = 16K]
Expansion ROM at febe0000 [disabled] [size = 128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

I hope this will help

jonathan