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by hferinga
Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:28 am
Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
Topic: System hangs in gdm splash screen
Replies: 13
Views: 37750

Re: System hangs in gdm splash screen

Unfortunately my "workaround" did not really work. Too bad. I really like the formfactor and the low powerconsumption. But if it fails to work properly I will have to replace it with something else.
by hferinga
Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:15 pm
Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
Topic: System hangs in gdm splash screen
Replies: 13
Views: 37750

Re: System hangs in splash screen

I set an exit 0; somewhere at the beginning in the /etc/init/gdm which actually makes the stanza invalid. I don't know the syntax of these (upstart) files, but it will start the system in a text console as I want it. Using "Text" on the kernel cmd line did not work, nor 2 (as in runlevel 2) did the ...
by hferinga
Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:02 pm
Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
Topic: System hangs in gdm splash screen
Replies: 13
Views: 37750

Re: System hangs in splash screen

I started in single user mode (network root) and started gdm: gdm start This resulted in the same hang with the same "splash screen". So it must have something to do with initializing the GUI (gdm?). I managed to get it working once today for some hours by restarting it everytime until it finally ga...
by hferinga
Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:57 pm
Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
Topic: System hangs in gdm splash screen
Replies: 13
Views: 37750

Re: System hangs in splash screen

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" was already set.

So I guess it is de gdm splash or something?
by hferinga
Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:15 am
Forum: Ubuntu 9.10
Topic: System hangs in gdm splash screen
Replies: 13
Views: 37750

System hangs in gdm splash screen

Hello, I have the fit-PC2 with 1.6 GHz processor and a 160Gb drive and the WLAN module. It runs Ubuntu 9.10. While running it for a while with every now and then failing to boot, it now fails to boot entirely into the (gnome) GUI. Running it in runlevel 2 and using a Vnc session remotely works witho...

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