| michaelg | Greetings! When I try to install Karmic on a new Thinkpad SL510, I get a blank screen after selecting "Install Ubuntu" after reboot with the Desktop Install CD in the tray. Ctrl-alt-delete still reboots, but ctrl-alt-f1 doesn't get me to the tty1 login prompt. Can someone suggest what to do next, please? | 01:40 |
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| michaelg | Same blank screen when I "Try ubuntu w/o modifying computer", and when I install via Wubi then reboot into UBuntu. | 01:41 |
| minerva | could somebody walk me through the install without external peripherals? | 05:25 |
| minerva | i've got the stuff downloaded to my c: drive | 05:25 |
| minerva | used unetbootin | 05:25 |
| minerva | tried to boot to c: but can't get it to do it | 05:26 |
| minerva | oh wait | 05:26 |
| minerva | ok | 05:26 |
| minerva | what i did was | 05:26 |
| minerva | i went the traditional route, downloaded and burned a cd | 05:26 |
| minerva | but it would halfway install, then hang | 05:27 |
| minerva | so i tried burning the cd slower, same problem | 05:27 |
| minerva | now when i boot up i get the dual-boot window with win2K and ubuntu options | 05:27 |
| minerva | i.e., it won't send me to c: drive even though i've selected that as my first boot drive | 05:28 |
| minerva | is there a way to uninstall that half-installed ubuntu? | 05:28 |
| davmor2 | cjwatson: are there meant to be some alternate iso's? | 09:13 |
| cjwatson | davmor2: I assume they failed to build | 10:18 |
| LewRockwellFAN | Can I add a line for my DVD drive to the grub.conf? If I can what do I call the drive? | 10:40 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r3605 ubiquity/debian/changelog: grammar | 12:20 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r3606 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/debconffilter.py): | 12:21 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: Pass DATA command through debconffilter rather than swallowing it, | 12:21 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: restoring useful progress information (LP: #445385). | 12:21 |
| CIA-15 | localechooser: cjwatson * r153 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog post-base-installer): | 12:39 |
| CIA-15 | localechooser: Make sure /target/etc/default exists before creating | 12:39 |
| CIA-15 | localechooser: /target/etc/default/locale (LP: #491198). | 12:39 |
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| ev | There's an outside chance the GTK+ height-for-width code will land in 2.20 | 15:15 |
| ev | http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-October/msg00052.html | 15:15 |
| cjwatson | "extended layout"? | 15:15 |
| ev | yes, sorry for not being more clear on that | 15:15 |
| ev | more information on that here: http://live.gnome.org/MathiasHasselmann/NewLayoutManager | 15:16 |
| CarlFK | "the following Linux command line was extracted from /etc/default/grub or the kopt pareter in GRUB Legacy's menu.lst. Please verify that it is correct, and modify it if necessary. Linux command line: ____" It is blank. Is that expected? | 15:37 |
| CarlFK | http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/a/conf_grub-pc1.png | 16:01 |
| CarlFK | http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/a/conf_grub-pc2.png "... It ls recommended that you do this in most situations..." so shouldn't that be the default? or at least check of sda? | 16:17 |
| cjwatson | 1> yes, though that shouldn't appear during installation (you give no context so I have no idea what you're doing) | 16:21 |
| cjwatson | 2> we simply don't know the right answer, really, and I don't want to auto-select something because people claim it as data loss when it goes wrong | 16:22 |
| cjwatson | 2> anyway we already have a spec to make this more reliable | 16:22 |
| CarlFK | cjwatson: 1) lucid netboot alt installer, using a karmic preseed file | 16:23 |
| cjwatson | it is not expected that either of those dialogs should appear during installation. | 16:23 |
| CarlFK | 2 - that makes sense. just thought it needed pointing out | 16:23 |
| CarlFK | want me to do it without the preseed and see if they show up? (not sure why that would matter, but it is easy enough) | 16:24 |
| cjwatson | I don't think it should matter, just give me a bug with the log and preseed file I guess | 16:35 |
| CarlFK | will do | 16:38 |
| CarlFK | Another one that I bet isn't expected: "Various snmp software needs extracted MIBs from RVCs and IANA..." http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/a/conf_libsnmp-base1.png | 16:40 |
| cjwatson | bug in the individual package asking the question, rather than in the installer as such | 16:41 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r3607 ubiquity/ (4 files in 3 dirs): | 17:22 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: * Fix KDE frontend translation issues (LP: #478006): | 17:22 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: - Retranslate install_process_label when the language changes. | 17:22 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: - Make "Layout:", "Variant:", and "Below is an image of your current | 17:22 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: layout:" translatable. | 17:22 |
| CarlFK | Alt-f2 busybox gives me a banner, but no prompt: http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/a/bb1.png | 17:26 |
| CIA-15 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r3608 ubiquity/debian/real-po/ (81 files): debconf-updatepo | 17:28 |
| cjwatson | CarlFK: I can't reproduce that | 17:52 |
| davmor2 | cjwatson: this lock up issue bug 491027 been fixed as in will we have installable iso's tomorrow do you know? | 17:58 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 491027 in python-apt "Lucid installer hangs at the 85%-95% mark" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/491027 | 17:58 |
| cjwatson | that part will be fixed, although it depends on general installability of the archive | 17:59 |
| cjwatson | I can't predict that | 17:59 |
| davmor2 | cjwatson: okay cool hopefully it would be nice to test before next week so we know the breakages in advance of A1 :) | 18:01 |
| CarlFK | cjwatson - I got "install step failed", hit a-F4, a-f2, enter. a-f1 back to error dialog, hit 'continue' got menu, selected 'interactive shell' and have a # prompt. a-f2, that shell still stuck. anything I should check in the vt1 shell? | 18:04 |
| cjwatson | err. ps, does the shell seem to be running? | 18:07 |
| cjwatson | I don't know I doubt I can debug it remotely | 18:07 |
| cjwatson | sorry, lag | 18:07 |
| cjwatson | sort of sounds as though it's run out of memory | 18:07 |
| cjwatson | if that's remotely polausible | 18:07 |
| cjwatson | or that the kernel is otherwise unhappy | 18:07 |
| CarlFK | ps - I see /bin/sh /bin/setupcon (2 times - I tried vt3 too.) and just /bin/sh which I bet is the vt1 shell. free mem: 371k total, 339k used, 31k free, swap: 473k, 0 used http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/a/vt1_1.png | 18:17 |
| cjwatson | ok, so sounds like setupcon is upset | 18:18 |
| cjwatson | what keyboard layout did you select? | 18:19 |
| cjwatson | can you show me: grep '^[^#]' /etc/default/console-setup | 18:20 |
| CarlFK | my pxe boot line: locale=en_US console-setup/layoutcode=us | 18:20 |
| cjwatson | still can't reproduce. can you restart, use the F1 shell to put 'set -x' on the second line of /bin/setupcon, and then start the F2 shell and tell me where it gets stuck? | 18:21 |
| CarlFK | I loaded sshd, then realized that may pollute the bug hunt.. should have asked... can start over if you want.) anyway, grep output: http://dpaste.de/2tSh/ | 18:25 |
| CarlFK | "can you restart... " just saw that. restarting.. | 18:37 |
| cjwatson | (away) | 18:38 |
| CarlFK | what editor exists int he bb shell? | 18:42 |
| cjwatson | nano | 18:55 |
| CarlFK | swell. I did basically the same thing, got a prompt. trying to reproduce doing exactly the same thing.... | 19:54 |
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| CIA-82 | ubiquity: superm1 * r3609 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog scripts/mythbuntu/mythbuntu_install.py): Mythbuntu frontend: don't default to UseEvents for NVIDIA anymore. | 22:20 |
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