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Cannot Boot in Ubuntu 7.10

Asked by Abhinav

While Booting

getting error:

/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer: Line47:[: too many arguments
Warning: Could not retrieve EDID because get-edid is not installed (1)

I am new to linux. So please help me.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please tell when you get this error
Using the Ubuntu live install cd or on a installed Ubuntu 7.10...

Thank you

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#2

installed Ubuntu 7.10

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please tell me if you can reach the pseudo-tty (terminal login) by pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 at boot.

Thank you

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#4

Yes

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Please try to update the system and install the get-edid package, make a login with your user and password from terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall install read-edid

Hope this helps

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

Also when the system will ask you for password then give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#7

After updating I am getting this error:

/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer: Line47:[: too many arguments

It also tells me that it cannot start Xserver

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#8

I reinstalled Ubuntu but it opens BusyBox

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#9

How many MB of RAM do you have...?

Thank you

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#10

1 GB

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#11

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.

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DrKeith (laptop-44) said : 		#12

Hello, I hope it's not too late to ask this, but if anyone sees this.....here goes....

I am having the EXACT same problem as described here, and this thread has been very very helpful to me so far. I installed the packages marcobra said and that solved the first problem of getting the EDID. Now I am having the same error
"/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer: Line47:[: too many arguments"

exactly like that, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

I thought I just had to enter how much video RAM I have (64MB) while configuring the xserver because of marcobras last comment, but that didn't work. I don't quite understand what Abhinav did in those last 3 posts but please share with me!!

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#13

I just ordered a new cd for ubuntu's site and i installed it. But when i got to know that my graphics card wasn't installed i downloaded the program from nVidia and installed it from root . Then i restarted the computer then again i started to get this error.So i reinstalled ubuntu and started working on it again. I did not bother to install the graphics card agian.

Abhinav

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Abhinav (abhinavhardikar) said : 		#14

DrKieth

Just order a new ubuntu 8.04 on the 24th of April and try installing it. This may solve Your problem. Just tell me that which graphics card do you have?

Abhinav