System hangs on startup after installing updates.

[Gilbert Cunanan]

(Date: 24 March 2005) I just installed Ubuntu 5.04 and it was working smoothly
for several hours until I installed all the updates available (287 updates).
After updating, my computer failed to complete the startup process with a
message that it "cannot start x and perhaps the settings are wrong" (cannot
remember exact words) and asks whether I want to view a log. I can no longer
select from the Yes/No option because the computer no longer responds. This
final screen is in text mode (in blue box). This is all I can remember.

I can only assume one of the updates is causing this but I cannot determine
which one since I just installed 287 updates. Since I am not familiar with
recovery mode, I just reformatted the Linux partition and reinstalled Ubuntu. I
am afraid to update my system unless this is resolved (but I don't know when).

My system is a Toshiba Sattelite A10 (PSA10L-0HJFHP) with 512MB RAM,
dual-booting between Windows XP Home in NTFS Partition (20MB) and Ubuntu Linux
partition (10MB).

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Please attach your entire /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log; it should
be safe to update your system since X has not changed since Hoary final.

[66dny9r02 (66dny9r02)]

I remember having experienced this problem as well (some time ago, I don't have
logs anymore). At that moment I looked at the logs but couldn't find any
information on why it got unresponsive (I looked in Xorg log and syslog). I was
most probably using the same driver at that moment (the ati driver; I have an
ATI Radeon 9200SE).
It may have something to do with the most recent Xorg packages (version ..32) in
breezy (I'm now using one version earlier in breezy and don't experience any
problem at all).

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

closing old NEEDINFO bug