liveCD doesn't boot to gnome

Bug #258073 reported by Cricket
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Bug Description

Downloaded intrepid ibex Alpha 4 and burned it to a CD, and that worked fine. I burned it, and it shows the option to install, try without installing, etc. I selected the try without installing option, and I see the loader, but then the keyboard and mouse die and I'm left with just a blinking screen, i.e. it never gets to gnome. I think it's a problem with the hot-pluggable thing that was added in Alpha 4.

I also tried the install without trying, and it installed fine, but then on first boot, it seems as though it's loading, but then the system stops at the beige screen and the keyboard and mouse are not responsive.

P.S. It's an intel motherboard with a Nvidia 6200 AGP graphics card, a PS/2 keyboard, and a USB mouse.

Tags: cft-2.6.27
description: updated
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Cricket (shahmir-noorani) wrote :

Further information:

I've tried removing the keyboard/mouse and I still got the same problem, so maybe that's not it?

I have a wireless card that's a Belkin F5D7000 with a realtek rtl8185 chipset. Is the rtl8180 kernel module loaded by default in Alpha 4? If so, I can try removing the wireless card from the PC and see if I can get into gnome then.

Sorry that there isn't more technical info in this, but I can try different things that anyone suggests in order to resolve this.

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

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Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

The Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Beta release was most recently announced - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta . It contains the 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. It would be great if you could test and verify if this is still an issue. The status is being set to Incomplete until we receive further feedback. Thanks.

Changed in linux:
status: New → Incomplete
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Cricket (shahmir-noorani) wrote :

Can confirm that the beta doesn't fix this; downloaded the beta and tried to boot it, and booting failed.

Can also confirm that it's not a kernel issue. I was able to install 8.04 and use update manager to upgrade to 8.10 successfully.

I think it might be my Belkin F5D7000 v7 network card (an rtl8185 chipset). I'll try removing it during the weekend and then boot, and let you guys know the result.

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Cricket (shahmir-noorani) wrote :

I was able to figure this out after installing debian lenny.

Can confirm that is a problem with rtl8180 that ships with 2.6.26 onwards and NetworkManager (currently running 0.6.6-2).

Dropping into runlevel 1 and doing /etc/init.d/network-manager start causes the system to halt. If I do rmmod rtl8180 and then start network-manager, then the system runs fine.

After modifying /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and blacklisting rtl8180 and then booting normally works and the wireless card works with ndiswrapper.

Will download intrepid nightly to confirm that this is the issue.

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Cricket (shahmir-noorani) wrote :

Bug has been confirmed with the latest intrepid beta. I was able to boot into the system only after blacklisting rtl8180. If the module is loaded and I try to bring wlan0 up (either by NetworkManager or manually), the whole system freezes.

The problem is not NetworkManager, but the kernel module itself, as after replacing NetworkManager with wicd I got the same problem of rtl8180 freezing the system.

The best option would be to blacklist this kernel module before shipping 8.10 final.

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Hi Cricket,

Care to try installing the linux-backports-modules package as it most recently pulled in an updated version of the compat-wireless stack. I'd be interested to know if the updated drivers it provides may help with the rtl8180 driver issue. Thanks.

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

*This is an automated response*

This bug report is being closed because we received no response to the previous request for information. Please reopen this if it is still an issue in the actively developed pre-release of Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty . To reopen the bug report simply change the Status of the "linux" task back to "New".

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status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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