mouse moves from bottom of screen upwards

Bug #320203 reported by truwinner
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Bug Description

I've tried installing UBUNTU 6.06.1 LTS for PC on three machines now and can't get a "good installation". The first two were newer machines so I "chalked it up to" driver inconsistencies.

The third (last night) was on an older HP Pavilion laptop. The installation went flawlessly on this machine. Partitions created exactly as I asked for. However, upon restart the desktop came up (i.e., I saw the "recycle bin" in lower right, "menu bar" across the top with Applications, etc., "start" button in lower left). However, although the mouse pointer moved in all directions, clicking on mouse buttons did nothing. Hovering the mouse over the "recycle bin" showed a tool tip (telling me it was the equivalent of the recycle bin) - but clicking on the icon/button did nothing. As I couldn't get any response at all (keyboard or mouse) I was forced to hard cycle the box with a power off.

A subsequent reboot came up to the desktop - but now there are no icons, no buttons, no menu bar at the top. Again because of no available response options I power cycled again to reboot.

Third time I tried using the "safe boot" option. This took me to a linux prompt. I exited the prompt (as my linux knowledge is less than adequate) and it booted to the desktop again - although again with no icons or buttons - totally unresponsive desktop after I enter my LOGIN ID and password.

I'm planning on a reinstall / refresh, but before I do I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on why this might be happening. One thing I didn't think of until just this second is that I installed on a wireless network connection (Broadcom integrated WLAN adapter). Could this be the problem? Could it be that the install doesn't recognize the WLAN and is hanging up waiting for network response of some sort? The boot process asks for my login id and password before getting to the unresponsive desktop although I'm not certain whether this is considered a local login or is necessary for "network" access. (My home network is running a Win2003 server with WinXP desktops throughout the house and home office.)

Any ideas by chance on what I might try to alleviate problems? I'd sure appreciate any insights...

Russ Foszcz

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chuckr (chuckrister) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better, but unfortunately I've been unable to reproduce your issue on Ubuntu 8.10.

Can you reproduce this issue with an Ubuntu LIVE CD and report back if the problem still exists on Ubuntu 8.10 LIVE CD?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

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