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Ubuntu doesn't start after installation

Asked by LarsD

Hello,

I am a first time Ubuntu user/installer.

After installing Ubuntu I can type in my username and password. After that the screen is empty, besided of the mouse pointer, and nothing happens.

What might be wrong?

Using Ubuntu 8.10 on an old (year 2004) Gericom notebook (Intel Celeron CPU, 1 GB Ram, on board grafix)

Thanks a lot

Lars

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Wim (launchpad-xs4all) said : 		#1

Lars,

i assume you do not see a prompt like
   lars@gericom$

Most probably your hard disk is full...

If you boot your Gericom-PC, is there a moment you see the message
   Grub loader stage ...
   Press <Esc> to .. menu

At this moment press <Esc>, a simple menu appears.
Choose the line stating something like

   Ubuntu08.10, kernel 2.6... (recovery mode)

Press <Enter> this will end up in a command line environment, like
   root@gericom$

now give these commands, and copy the reply here, so we can read it:

   df -H .

the second column is the size of the disk,
the third is the quantity already used,
the 4th is the space available
and the 5th is the percentage used.

Reply these lines here.

You can now shut down the PC by giving the command

   init 0

(the latter is the ZERO)

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pe3k (qyx) said : 		#2

Hi, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to change text-mode and try log in with your password and username. If Ubuntu was installed correctly, your computer should work except the graphic mode. It seems to be a problem of incorrect xorg.conf settings. Try posting content of these files: /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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