system hangs after logging in

[Sujin Joshi]

I recently upgraded from Hardy Heron to Intrepid Ibex Beta.
The upgrade went fine. But, when I restarted my machine and logged in to my account, the system hangs.
A blank screen is displayed with a mouse cursor and the keyboard doesn't work at all.
But when I press the power button on my CPU, the system shutdowns after a certain period but nothing is displayed on the screen except for a cursor.
I even tried with Failsafe GNOME session but it resulted the same.

Same problem in live-cd also!!

When I logged in to Failsafe Terminal and open program like firefox, it works fine but without window borders.
When trying to start nautilus or metacity, some errors appeared which tells something like 'failed to make connection to....'

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi sujinjoshi,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Sujin Joshi (sujinjoshi)]

The three attachments.

[Sujin Joshi (sujinjoshi)]

the problem persists in the latest stable release of ubuntu(intrepid ibex) live cd also

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This sounds like a broken monitor EDID issue, although there isn't EDID info listed in the Xorg.0.log. Could you collect the output of `get-edid | parse-edid` (from the read-edid package) and post here?

For working around the issue, I've outlined some steps at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution and http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Resolution, which might help. Also if I'm correct that it's an EDID issue, then the issue is going to be particular to your monitor, so if you have a different one on hand you could try it.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562]

[Sujin Joshi (sujinjoshi)]

The issue is listed in the ubuntu release notes as
"Hangs with desktop effects on Intel 830MG and 845G video cards"
I turned off the Visual Effects and everything is working fine.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> This sounds like a broken monitor EDID issue, although there isn't EDID
> info listed in the Xorg.0.log. Could you collect the output of `get-
> edid | parse-edid` (from the read-edid package) and post here?
>
> For working around the issue, I've outlined some steps at
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution and
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Resolution, which might help.
> Also if I'm correct that it's an EDID issue, then the issue is going to
> be particular to your monitor, so if you have a different one on hand
> you could try it.
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation
> 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562]
> (rev 03)
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
> Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562]
>
> --
> system hangs after logging in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278431
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> of the bug.
>

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[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

This bug was reported in the Intrepid development cycle; removing regression-potential and marking as regression-release.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[Redundant to file against xorg as well as the xserver]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.