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  1. Bug #532984
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 532984

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Patrik Nilsson (nipatriknilsson) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

I did the following change:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
--- contents ---
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
Option "NoPM" "true"

SubSection "extmod"
 Option "omit DPMS"
EndSubSection
--- end ---

Before my change xorg.conf was empty.

I have had some hangs during boot time, because of "etpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id" before, but with the above change the computer hanged every time I tried to boot.

Then I entered recovery mode and root shell...

cd /etc/X11
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf-1

... I shuted down the computer and after that I could log on again.

Just for testing, I repeater the above steps again and the error came back. To start the computer (and to write this error report) I had to rename xorg.conf again.