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Sean Clarke (sean-clarke) wrote : New Apple iMac (Core i5) fails to boot

Binary package hint: xorg

Lucid beta 1 fails to boot on my Apple iMac 27" (Core i5 model).

I am happily running Karmic (had to download backport Alsa to get sound working), but Lucid beta 1 fails to boot. You initially see the new purple Ubuntu loader, then it goes black - CD continues to whirl and after it sounds like it is loading in the background it resets and restarts.

Suspect problem with video - I can get it to boot if I select option F6 and "selectnomodes" (I think thats what it was called) - it boots fine (I am running it now).

Question: Would this stop me upgrading from Karmic?

If you need any more info, please email.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 20 12:57:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['gksu', '-D', 'Apport', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
MachineType: Apple Inc. iMac11,1
Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- nomodeset
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 10/30/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: IM111.88Z.0034.B00.0910301727
dmi.board.name: Mac-F2268DAE
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 13
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F2268DAE
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrIM111.88Z.0034.B00.0910301727:bd10/30/09:svnAppleInc.:pniMac11,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F2268DAE:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct13:cvrMac-F2268DAE:
dmi.product.name: iMac11,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-16-generic