Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: upstart
I installed Lucid alpha-1 and have been updating frequently through today. As of sometime yesterday (15 Jan 2010) it usually crashes during the boot process - usually as gdm is starting, showing a rotating mouse pointer. The pointer stops rotating and the system seems to totally freeze, with no disk activity.
If I select the 2.6.32-9-generic kernel instead, the system will boot all the way, but then I see the X screen problem described in Bug #495553. (Note that the tty display problem described in that bug still exists).
If I select booting into recovery mode, and log in as root, I can start gdm (That is how I got this system running just now). Note also that I see that other daemons, such as ssh and apache2 have not started either - I have to start them manually. Also, the virtual screen used for text display in recovery mode is too big, so that lines I enter are off the screen, so I have to "fly blind" - enter commands and password without seeing what I type.
Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
Linux eros 2.6.32-10-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 7 17:38:40 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 16 08:37:03 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091209)
Package: upstart 0.6.3-11
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: upstart
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686
affects: | xorg-server (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: crash |
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
This still happens with Lucid alpha-2 updated through today, but not always.
I think that this may not be a problem with the driver itself, but with timing related to the upstart scripts in /etc/init/ .
If I start the system in recovery mode, log in as root, and run the script
#!/bin/sh
echo start some services like the ssh daemon and apache
service ssh start
service apache2 start
echo start X
service gdm start
then gdm always starts.
Note that Bug #945553 mentions this problem.
In the past, when a similar problem occurred, I could change the order in which gdm started from /init/rc2.d, relative to other daemons, but I don't know how to do this with the new upstart scripts.