[RV620] [HD 3450] Kubuntu: X does not start on 9.04

[Dori]

I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.04. The install went fine, rebooted, tried to change display settings with the X randr utility, it seemed to work and I rebooted. Upon reboot X wouldn't come up. It got as far as completing the progress bar, and even saw some text after it, but after that all I saw was some junk red pixels at the top of the screen.

I have two monitors, and an ATI card. I should mention that I have Ubuntu 8.10 on this same machine and it works fine. I am attaching my xorg.conf from the 9.04 install as well as the last Xorg.0.log file.

I'd start in runlevel 2, but someone smarter than me thought it was a good idea to remove the inittab file, so I have no idea how to configure the system to not try X.

Graphics card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller [8086:2e20] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02ac]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3450 [1002:95c5]
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:9018]

[Dori (slowpoke+ubuntu)]

Additionally, I tried removing all the files in the user's home directory in case it was some config file setting in there, but no dice. It won't start even with an empty home directory.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This appears to be an X.org bug, and I am refiling this bug to them. Please run the command 'apport-collect <bug#>' which will include all the info they need for troubleshooting. Thanks in advance.

[Dori (slowpoke+ubuntu)]

Ermm, as I said, I can't log in, how am I supposed to run a command on a blank screen with garbage pixels? I can't drop to runlevel 2, and I can't even bring up a tty.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Try selecting the "recovery option" from the GRUB boot loader and see if you can get to a console from there. If you have ssh already you can also run the command from there. Otherwise, maybe you can boot a live CD, mount your HDD partition from there and then modify the startup scripts (unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what needs to be modified to get your machine to boot into either a terminal or VESA x.org). Note that Ubuntu does not use "init" so inittab is probably not affecting this situation (ubuntu uses "upstart" instead).

[Dori (slowpoke+ubuntu)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
LsHal:

NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Dori (slowpoke+ubuntu)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
LsHal:

NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Dori (slowpoke+ubuntu)]

sorry for the double posting, but apport errored out and I wanted to capture its error, which is as follows:
error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_xserver-xorg-video-ati.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 570, in add_hooks_info
    symb['add_info'](self)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_xserver-xorg-video-ati.py", line 104, in add_info
    report['fglrx-loaded'] = matches
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 479, in __setitem__
    assert k.replace('.', '').isalnum()
AssertionError

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]