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Startup issue. Hangs, and requires three "interrupts"

Asked by Hugh Hetherington

Hello People.

I did a complete install of the 32 bit 11.04 on my desktop system. When I boot the system, it runs through its BIOS routines, and then comes up with a solid purple display and hangs. To move it on, I need to briefly press the power button, and it then moves on a little more for about 1 second as indicated by the hard disk activity light, and hangs again. I need to repeat this another two times, and it will then finally come up with the psychedelic background and login areas.

I first thought this was a Bios issue (AMI) and set all parameters to "Safe Defaults" except for the onboard VGA and Audio, and 4 sec poweroff delay, but same result.

My hardware is a Gigabyte motherboard GA-MA78GPM-UD2H using an AMD Athlon, with 2GB ram. I have an 80GB IDE master system disk with a DVD writer as its slave, and a 500GB SATA data disk

The hardware has never been overclocked.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

Try typing esc when you are hung up and see if it switches to a text screen with any error messages. Other things to try are alt-F1 or ctrl-slt-f1 to see if there are any error messages.

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Hugh Hetherington (hugh-hetherington) said : 		#2

I tried all three key combinations.
In each case, I only had to type it in once, and it would then proceed to a login screen, however, no error messages.

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Hugh Hetherington (hugh-hetherington) said : 		#3

So we are now down to one interrupt by using the keyboard, which is a partial win. Is there anywhere I can look to find an error message and get rid of this final interrupt?

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#4

When you log in, run update-manager (System/Administration/update manager) and update your system. That may fix things.
There are system log files in /var/log to look at, but I'm not sure what you'd be looking for.

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Hugh Hetherington (hugh-hetherington) said : 		#5

System was already up to date. As the system on bootup has now been reduced to one via keyboard, I can live with this for the moment and can mark this solution "solved but still a problem exists." I will check through logs to see whether I can find anything, and if not, post an updated question again. Thanks for your help.

Hugh.