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Ubuntu freezes unless operating in recovery mode

Asked by Sam Jazrawi

Hi,

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition on my Compaq Presario R3000. I installed it using a bootable CDROM, which experienced a number of hanging issues until I set the noapic option on bootup.

After installation, the OS continues to hang during usage unless I start it in recovery mode. I've checked the forums on this and although there appear to be a number of people reporting the problem, no real fix exists. Is there even a workaround? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

Set noapic in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noapic splash quiet"

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#2

It would be:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Ctrl+O to save

Ctrl+X to exit

Then run:

sudo update-grub2

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Sam Jazrawi (wjazrawi) said : 		#3

Hi wojox,

I changed these settings, but it didn't work. I now get a frozen screen right before the login screen appears.

As mentioned, the only time I don't encounter any freezes is when I launch in recovery mode and choose the FailsafeX option. I haven't tried any of the other options that appear in recovery mode as this appears to work for me. Any other ideas?

Thanks.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#4

Try adding

nolapic and noapic

to it.

I had a similar problem but I did the same thing with

nomodeset

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Sam Jazrawi (wjazrawi) said : 		#5

Thanks wojox, although the nolapic / noapic didn't do the trick, nomodeset seems to have. That's a relief. Thanks for your help, much appreciated.