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Freeze after login Ubuntu 7.04

Asked by Andrew Rae

I installed on a hdd with partitions: 2GB swap, 38GB ext3 root. Using first Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64 alternative, then i386 alternative. I couldn't use the desktop image because Ubuntu livecd's past 5.10 also freeze at the same point. I login, a box comes up with icons and "nautilus", "restricted manager", while a sound players, then the box goes, mouse cursor (and everything) freezes, no response.

Recovery mode works, update manager works, installed restricted driver, "hardware information" and "power management" close quickly after opening. Tried boot options irqpoll, noapic, nolapic, pci=noacpi in grub. Tried reinstalling a few times. Ubuntu runs fine on my laptop, but it hasn't been great on my PC.

Specs:
AMD64 3000+ Newcastle
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro
ASUS Radeon 9600XT
1GB DDR RAM
40GB HDD, PATA 40GB HDD PATA, 250GB SATA

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Peter Matulis (petermatulis) said : 		#1

Boot into recovery mode and reconfigure xserver-xorg:

$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Choose the vesa driver to determine whether your problem is due to your video card (if your system is functional with this rudimentary driver then the problem lies with your card).

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Andrew Rae (andy-rae) said : 		#2

Thank you for your time.

I logged in after choosing the vesa driver and it froze at the same point.

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Peter Matulis (petermatulis) said : 		#3

Provide some X logs. The file is:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Andrew Rae (andy-rae) said : 		#4

Can't find what markup this site supports, so here's the url: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/aj.rae/Xorg.0.log

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Peter Matulis (petermatulis) said : 		#5

Send files as attachments.

Can you send that log file plus:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Andrew Rae (andy-rae) said : 		#6

Oh, you can email responses. Here they are. Thanks.

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Andrew Rae (andy-rae) said : 		#7

One more try.

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Andrew Rae (andy-rae) said : 		#8

Not sure if this is useful. I changed the AGP speed in the BIOS from 8x to 4x, and it froze a few seconds later than usual, after the menu, icons and time appear.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#9

I noticed a few reports here on AMD64 freezing.
I think you will be able to get more feedback if you check at ubuntuforums.org.
Click to do an advanced search, and search for something like "freeze", search in titles only.
There are a few threads around this issue.

You can also search for any bug reports in Launchpad against the AMD64 kernel.

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