My First Black Screen of Death?

[Guest]

I did try searching for my problem, but I may have searched poorly - in which case please forgive me.

I've only been using Kubuntu for a short time, and this is my first real problem, but it seems insurmountable to me. I would appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you!

Kubuntu 11.04 (But someone told me it automatically uses the netbook version for netbooks? So maybe that?)
NOT installed inside of Windows.
What version of KDE you are using: Whatever comes with 11.04
What version of Grub you are using: Whatever comes with 11.04
NO other operating systems installed

Type: acer aspire one (netbook)
CPU: Intel Atom N455 (1.66GHz, 512KB cache)
GPU: unsure and can't get to konsole, Wikipedia says "...Intel Atom platform, which consists of the Intel Atom processor, Intel 945GSE Express chipset and Intel 82801GBM (ICH7M) I/O controller,[4] ...models were released in June 2010 consisting of the AMD Athlon II Neo processor and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics controller."
RAM:1GB
HDs: one 250GB HDD
Optical Drives: None

I was using GIMP when things froze, I turned off the netbook and later turned it back on. It lets me log in, but then it sits for a bit and suddenly there's a black screen full of text (once there was a blue screen with lighter text, but that quickly went away to be replaced with the black one). I have a mouse cursor, and it moves around, but can't click anything. If I leave it alone long enough the screen will go black like it's sleeping, but it hasn't made me try to unlock it (maybe I haven't left it long enough).

Following is the text of the screen, although I already caught myself transposing numbers twice, so it may not be completely accurate.

a_intel snd_hda_codec ath9k snd_hwdep snd_pcm binfmt_misc snd_seq_midi mac80211 snd_rawmidi ath9k_common snd_seq_midi_event ath9k_hw snd_seq ath snd_timer snd_seq_device uvcvideo sparse_keymap videodev cfg80211 snd psmouse serio_raw soundcore snd_page_alloc lp parport i915 usbhid drm_kms_helper hid atl1c drm i2c_algo_bit ahci libahci video
[ 95.292042]
[ 95.292042] Pid: 1182, comm: jdm Not tainted 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu Acer AOD255E/JE02_PT_E
[ 95.292042] EIP: 0060:[<c124ce7d>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
[ 95.292042] EIP is at crypto_larval_kill+0x1d/0x60
[ 95.292042] EAX: 00200200 EBX: ed60ef00 ECX: 00000040 EDX: edf9dd7c
[ 95.292042] ESI: fffffffe EDI: 0000008f EBP: edf9dd80 ESP: edf9dd7c
[ 95.292042] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 95.292042] Process kdm (pid: 1182, ti=edf9c000 task=edd625e0 task.ti=edf9c000)
[ 95.292042] Stack:
[ 95.292042] fffffffe edf9dd90 c124d50d ed4e0180 00000004 edf9ddb0 c124d590 c16a4d51
[ 95.292042] edd625e0 ed69e8b0 ed4e0180 ed4e01ac 00000000 edf9dde0 c11f92ba c169c218
[ 95.292042] c152fa4f ed4e01ac 00000003 00000080 ed4e0238 ed69e8b0 ed4e01cc eebc8030
[ 95.292042] Call Trace:
[ 95.292042] [<c1124d50d>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x5d/0x80
[ 95.292042] [<c1124d590>] crypto_alloc_base+0x30/0x90
[ 95.292042] [<c11f92ba>] ecryptfs_init_crypt_ctx+0xba/0x120
[ 95.292042] [<c11f96bf>] ecryptfs_new_file_context+0x14f/0x1f0
[ 95.292042] [<c11f408d>] ? unlock_dir+0x1d/0x20
[ 95.292042] [<c11f45a7>] ecryptfs_initialize_file+0x47/0x180
[ 95.292042] [<c11f4706>] ecryptfs_create+0x26/0x50
[ 95.292042] [<c121af3b>] ? security_inode_create+0x1b/0x30
[ 95.292042] [<c11309ba>] vfs_create+0x9a/0xf0
[ 95.292042] [<c124a1ff>] ? apparmor_path_mknod+0x1f/0x30
[ 95.292042] [<c1133d72>] do_last+0x2a2/0x350
[ 95.292042] [<c113415b>] do_filp_open+0x33b/0x6e0
[ 95.292042] [<c150ce00>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x490
[ 95.292042] [<c11265b6>] do_sys_open+0x56/0x120
[ 95.292042] [<c11266ae>] sys_open+0x2e/0x40
[ 95.292042] [<c1509bf4>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[ 95.292042] Code: c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 53 3e 8d 74 26 00 89 c3 b8 08 ce 75 c1 e8 eb bc 2b 00 8x 13 8b 43 04 89 42 04 <89> 10 b8 08 ce 75 c1 c7 03 00 01 10 00 c7 43 04 00 02 20 00 e8
[ 95.292042] EIP: [<c124ce7d>] crypto_larval_kill+0x1d/0x60 SS:ESP 0068:edf9dd7c
[ 95.292042] CR2: 0000000000200200

[DoYouKubuntu]

Re: My First Black Screen of Death?

I've never seen what you're experiencing, so I don't know how much help I can be. The first thing that comes to my mind--in other words, what *I* would do in your situation--is to log in as root, or--if you haven't enabled root logins--log in as another user. Do you have another user account set up? Did you enable root logins? The reason I would approach it this way is to see if another user can get in normally. If so, it's not a borked system, but a borked config file or something unique to your user account.

[swaroop]

Re: My First Black Screen of Death?

i don't know the exact solution but i can suppliment DoYouKubuntu's answer
to login as root, hold down the shift button while the system is starting which will give you the grub menu. press e while highlighting the first entry.

edit the last but one line. replace everything from 'ro' onwards on the line with 'single'
then do startx