mythbuntu hangs on boot

[Ulrich Albert]

After upgrading from linux-image-2.6.24-12-generic to linux-image-2.6.24-15-generic resp. linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic the boot splash hangs after approximativly 20%. If I press Ctrl-Alt-Del it jumps to 70% but gives a error message, that it cannot start the X-Server. Sometimes, when I have used the 2.6.24-12 version, it comes to the login-screen but reports that hal is not running as soon as the desktop is present.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Nothing overly indicative in those logs. You have all packages up to date at this point? Can you boot into 'recovery' mode in the grub menu?

[Ulrich Albert (ulrich-albert)]

If I boot into recovery mode i get a similar result. The boot process hangs after uploading the firmware. If I press Ctrl-Alt-Del the process goes on until it reports that it cannot start the X-Server. I logged into a terminal and started aptitude, which reported that it could not lock the lock-file as the harddisk was in a read only state.

Nevertheless should all packages been up to date yesterday, as I can boot with the linux-image-2.6.24-12-generic and updated them. The problem with the missing hal occurs only afterwards, when I use the linux-image-2.6.24-16(15)-generic and the problem with the hang during boot does not occur.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Please add the repository as described in

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24/+bug/212271/comments/66

If that fixes it, this is a duplicate of bug 212271 (which it sounds like it is)

[Ulrich Albert (ulrich-albert)]

Thank you very much, this solved my problem. Sorry for the inconvenience I made you, because I did not find the original bug. I mark it as a duplicate of 212271 now.