Binary package hint: xsplash
What I expected to happen:
Turn computer on
See splash screen
See login screen
What happened:
Turn computer on
Saw blank screen with a blinking cursor. Sometimes 4 lines down, sometimes in top left corner.
Switched to a completely black screen
Switched back to blank screen with cursor
Flashing HDD activity light
....
waiting
...
Reset
Saw blank screen with a blinking cursor. Sometimes 4 lines down, sometimes in top left corner.
Switched to a completely black screen
Switched back to blank screen with cursor
Flashing HDD activity light
....
waiting
...
Power off
Turn computer on
Saw blank screen with a blinking cursor. Sometimes 4 lines down, sometimes in top left corner.
Switched to a completely black screen
Switched back to blank screen with cursor
Briefly saw a purple screen with a some red dots, image was quite corrupted
Saw login screen (hooray).
Filed bug.
I have no idea what information is needed to figure out what is happening. Let me know what you need. I occasionally had a similar error in 9.10 but it was rare enough it didn't matter. During the waiting I only waited a few minutes. It's possible it may have booted eventually.
System is:
10.04 x64 upgraded from 9.10 via update manager
amd x2 5600
2gb ram
256mb nvidia 7600
sata western digital 1.5tb
sata icy box enclosure (no drive in it)
ide dvd writer
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Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 47f97b5b6a4fd4113e0977eef1f297c6
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
CurrentDmesg:
[ 24.477706] alloc irq_desc for 29 on node 0
[ 24.477710] alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
[ 24.477719] forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: irq 29 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 24.646753] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 34.880011] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: MSI MS-7260
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=17fd4f79-b4e4-4070-9c2b-f13724fc6356 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare shared
dmi.bios.date: 09/06/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: MS-7260
dmi.bios.version: V1.9
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7260
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnMS-7260:bvrV1.9:bd09/06/2007:svnMSI:pnMS-7260:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnMS-7260:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: MS-7260
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
Could possibly be related to Plymouth, but since you occasionally had this happen during 9.10 that makes me think this might be related to X itself but I'm not quite sure. I'm going to tentatively assign this to Plymouth for now.