Ubuntu Karmic Beta cannot boot sometimes

[Andrea Grandi]

I've upgraded my Jaunty installation to Karmic beta and lot of times when I boot the system, it simply cannot complete boot.
I removed "quiet splash" from grub configuration to be able to read any particular error.

It looks like my boot always stops after these two lines:

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
/dev/sda5: clean, 102866/11845632 files, 14077832/47361620 blocks

nothing more.

At this point I can unlock the situation doing a CTRL+ALT+CANC

it prints me something on the display, then it reboots after few seconds, so I'm not able to read what it says.

If you need any other information, please ask me.

Thanks.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

reassigned to linux package

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

This might be related to bug 430694. Do you know if your system uses the Intel i915 driver? The title says "sometimes", so I assume that you can boot. If so, try applying the workaround in comment 2 of 430694:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/430694/comments/2

[Andrea Grandi (andreagrandi)]

@Robbie: I've a Nvidia 9600GT sound card. The system always stop booting at "fsck" part. Today I recorded a video, I'll upload somewhere as soon as possible (it would be easier if I wasn't affected by another bug too, that doesn't let me mount my USB keys/disks!). So that workaround is not for me.

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

could be a similar issue, where the nvidia module is not getting loaded at the right time...race condition. Then next time you run into this problem, on the first successful reboot attach both your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old files to this bug

[Andrea Grandi (andreagrandi)]

You can close this bug for me. After 5 ignored submitted bugs I switched back to Jaunty.
I'm ready to collaborate again to have a bug-free Lucid Lynx, but please don't ignore me this time.

Thanks.

[Jim Lieb (lieb)]

Per reporter's request. Note: issue was not invalid although on a Beta, hence won't fix in this release.
Thank you for responding.