[hardy] Fails to boot on Acer laptop

[Nanley Chery]

I installed Wubi (Ubuntu Daily Live 04-07-08) on my Acer Aspire 3000.
I upon selecting Ubuntu from the boot menu, ACPI error messages appear then usplash loads.
Usplash freezes 1/6th of the way.
Nothing will restart or shutdown the computer except for unplugging the laptop.

ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_wait timeout, status = 10, expect_event = 2
ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042.
Please wait...

I booted into windows, then rebooted into Ubuntu.
Now the boot goes all the way into GDM, but I am unable to type anything.
Once again, the only way to turn off the lappie is by unplugging it.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Try to uninstall, reinstall. Then when you select "ubuntu" at reboot press esc and go for the acpi option.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

I had the same problem the after the first reboot, but after that it worked fine.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Should I mark as invalid?

[romekg (sfunkulo)]

I have the same problem, also at next reboots. When I enter the menu at the booting and pick up the option (for now I've tried only the first one) it starts fine, but when I skip, it just writes the before mentioned error message and freezes so it needs to be cut off of power.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

I no longer have this laptop to provide further information.