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[09:43] <grr> hi all |
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[11:50] <Culiforge> Hello, was working with some others yesterday to get a broken install running.. reinstalled grub... had to run, now neither install will boot. |
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[11:59] <coalwater> hi Culiforge |
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[11:59] <coalwater> does grub start up ? or does it fail |
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[12:00] <coalwater> do u get a grub rescue or something? |
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[12:01] <Culiforge> coalwater, grub starts |
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[12:01] <Culiforge> rescue/recovery won't finish boot either |
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[12:02] <coalwater> does it show the operating systems list correctly ? |
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[12:02] <Culiforge> as far as I can tell... nothing glaringly obvious is different from when it was booting correctly |
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[12:02] <Culiforge> http://paste.ubuntu.com/829922/ |
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[12:04] <Culiforge> coalwater, to give you some backstory... I installed an nvidia 8400gs and when I went down for restart to install the driver, that's when all the trouble started |
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[12:04] <Culiforge> 10.04 btw |
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[12:04] <coalwater> i have that same, it doesn't work as i wish it would but it works |
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[12:05] <coalwater> did u install from the drivers thingy? |
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[12:05] <coalwater> additional drivers or w/e |
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[12:05] <Culiforge> thingy? you mean the restricted drivers? yes |
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[12:05] <coalwater> can u start a terminal at least? |
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[12:06] <Culiforge> i'm in a live env atm and yes I can term and mount the disks |
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[12:06] <coalwater> i would try to rename the xorg.conf and see if it will start |
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[12:06] <coalwater> like mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup or something |
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[12:07] <Culiforge> I don't want to sound terse, so please excuse if I do... but I've tried that |
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[12:07] <coalwater> full path is /etc/X11/xorg.conf in case u dontk now |
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[12:07] <coalwater> hm |
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[12:07] <coalwater> ko |
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[12:07] <coalwater> ok* |
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[12:07] <Culiforge> I've got a list of things that I have tried so i'll let you know as they come ok? |
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[12:08] <Culiforge> nomodeset in grub boot param, glxpayload.. |
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[12:08] <Culiforge> reinstall grub.. update grub.. |
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[12:08] <coalwater> well, nvidia usually takes the old xorg as backup, did u try to restore it temporarily |
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[12:09] <Culiforge> did'nt have an old xorg unless nvidia put it somewher I don't know about |
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[12:10] <coalwater> it should be xorg.conf.bak or something like that |
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[12:12] <Culiforge> there;s an xorg failsafe there... |
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[12:12] <Culiforge> under etc/X11/ |
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[12:13] <Culiforge> xorg.conf.failsafe is full name |
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[12:14] <coalwater> hm yea i have that one too, idk whats it for though |
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[12:15] <Culiforge> it's the same format as the conf and appears to have generic vanilla values |
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[12:15] <coalwater> u could try it, and hope that it disables the nvidia driver for now |
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[12:15] <Culiforge> fbdev instead of nvidia driver |
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[12:16] <Culiforge> so rename it then and .bak the orig? |
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[12:17] <coalwater> yea, but take backup from the current one, also just use cp not mv |
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[12:18] <coalwater> o ok |
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[12:18] <coalwater> yea |
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[12:18] <coalwater> sry missed ur last line |
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[12:18] <Culiforge> just did it through gui.. all seems ok |
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[12:18] <coalwater> what i hate about this process,, is that u reboot after every change lol |
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[12:19] <Culiforge> yeah, and on a fail.. (too many of 'em) have to reload the live os just to communicate.. :) |
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[12:20] <Culiforge> alright, be back in a few ... |
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[12:31] <Culiforge> coalwater, back... no love there |
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[12:35] <coalwater> sad lol |
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[12:35] <coalwater> it fails on the gui starting up right? |
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[12:36] <coalwater> u said even recovery fails, u cant even run a root terminal ? |
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[12:36] <Culiforge> I get the ugly bootsplash and then a 'loading please wait' |
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[12:36] <Culiforge> right |
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[12:36] <coalwater> that's strange |
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[12:37] <Culiforge> if I esc during that I get a plymouth .pid error |
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[12:41] <Culiforge> was working with a couple ppl yesterday and chroot'd and all kinds of fancy stuff. reinstalled grub now i've got 2 broken installs.. same behavior with both |
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[12:41] <Culiforge> i'm not complaining, we just didn't get a chance to follow up |
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[12:43] <coalwater> you mean here on the irc? |
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[12:43] <Culiforge> yeah |
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[12:47] <Culiforge> this has been a rough going project so far.. get on the channel about 5 or 6 am, post quetion, explain what's been done, what started it try a few things, then it's usually me who runs out of time and has to go. |
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[12:48] <coalwater> im reading it |
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[12:48] <Culiforge> there may be some in the nvidia channel as well as ubuntu |
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[12:49] <coalwater> yea maybe |
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[13:25] <Culiforge> coalwater, well, in standard style.. 2 1/2 hrs and now it's family time on sunday morning.. I'll try and be back later today |
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[13:25] <Culiforge> coalwater, thanks for looking into this for me |
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[13:29] <coalwater> np, hope it gets fixed at some point lol |
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[13:29] <Culiforge> indeed |
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[13:29] <Culiforge> I'm coming up on 2 weeks behind on my work. :) :( |
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[13:30] <coalwater> is ur home and system 1 partition |
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[13:30] <coalwater> or separate? |
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[13:30] <Culiforge> one |
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[13:31] <coalwater> yea , well i learned to split them lol, allows reinstallation without loosing a lot of stuff |
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[13:32] <Culiforge> I'm goin to do the same once I get recovered from this |
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[13:32] <Culiforge> anywho, gotta run |
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[13:32] <coalwater> take care |
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[13:32] <Culiforge> you too |
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[14:54] <chet_> Hi all, i seem to be experiencing really poor wireless internet since installing 11.10, I have an intel PRO Wireless 5100 AGN, any ideas what's the problem anyone? |
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