On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:08 -0600, Darkelldar wrote:

> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets to the
> screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I have to power
> down the PC at the power supply switch.
>
> Any ideas?

Yeah. Stick with Windoze. You're not ready for something like this.


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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:08 -0600
"Darkelldar" wrote:

> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets
> to the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I
> have to power down the PC at the power supply switch.

I assume that your post means that you also do not have any disk
activity for a while, or anything along those lines?

Can you press Control+Alt+F1 and reach a virtual terminal? If not, can
you press Alt+SysRq+k and does that do anything? Or, if that does not
work, what about Alt+SysRq+b?

Also, have you been able to use Hardy or any other previous Ubuntu
release, or any other distribution of Linux on this particular system?

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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:20:44 -0500
Dan C wrote:

> Yeah. Stick with Windoze. You're not ready for something like this.

That was wholly uncalled for.

Head on over to comp.os.linux.advocacy, your type is quite welcome
there.

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"Dan C" wrote in message
newsan.2008.11.01.01.20.44.772046@moria.lan...
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:08 -0600, Darkelldar wrote:
>
>> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets to
>> the
>> screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I have to
>> power
>> down the PC at the power supply switch.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Yeah. Stick with Windoze. You're not ready for something like this.
>
>
> --
> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
> The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
>
So thats the help I get here. Thanks a lot.

"Michael B. Trausch" wrote in message
news:20081031212926.4a075e79@zest...
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:08 -0600
> "Darkelldar" wrote:
>
>> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets
>> to the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I
>> have to power down the PC at the power supply switch.
>
> I assume that your post means that you also do not have any disk
> activity for a while, or anything along those lines?
>
> Can you press Control+Alt+F1 and reach a virtual terminal? If not, can
> you press Alt+SysRq+k and does that do anything? Or, if that does not
> work, what about Alt+SysRq+b?
>
> Also, have you been able to use Hardy or any other previous Ubuntu
> release, or any other distribution of Linux on this particular system?
>
> --- Mike
>
> --
> My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.
> http://www.trausch.us/
>

I will try the keystrokes and see what happens. I did get Hardy to install
once but could not get wireless or the sound to work. So I want to try 8.10

"Darkelldar" wrote in message
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>
> "Michael B. Trausch" wrote in message
> news:20081031212926.4a075e79@zest...
>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:08 -0600
>> "Darkelldar" wrote:
>>
>>> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets
>>> to the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I
>>> have to power down the PC at the power supply switch.
>>
>> I assume that your post means that you also do not have any disk
>> activity for a while, or anything along those lines?
>>
>> Can you press Control+Alt+F1 and reach a virtual terminal? If not, can
>> you press Alt+SysRq+k and does that do anything? Or, if that does not
>> work, what about Alt+SysRq+b?
>>
>> Also, have you been able to use Hardy or any other previous Ubuntu
>> release, or any other distribution of Linux on this particular system?
>>
>> --- Mike
>>
>> --
>> My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.
>> http://www.trausch.us/
>>
>
> I will try the keystrokes and see what happens. I did get Hardy to install
> once but could not get wireless or the sound to work. So I want to try
> 8.10
>
The keystokes did not work.

Seems like the keyboard & mouse stop responding.

Darkelldar wrote:
> "Dan C" wrote:
>> Darkelldar wrote:
>>
>>> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install,
>>> It gets to the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse
>>> or keyboard. I have to power down the PC at the power supply
>>> switch. Any ideas?
>>
>> Yeah. Stick with Windoze. You're not ready for something like
>> this.
>
> So thats the help I get here. Thanks a lot.

Dan C is a troll. Ignore it.

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Darkelldar wrote:
> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets to
> the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I have
> to power down the PC at the power supply switch.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

Did you check the md5sum before you burned the CD? Here are some that
are shown on the ubuntu site. I believe that you can also check the
md5sum of the CD itself, but depending on what OS you are using to view
it, the commands are different.

ea6d44667ea3fd435954d6e1f0e89122 *ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso
f9e0494e91abb2de4929ef6e957f7753 *ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso
f9cdb7e9ad85263dde17f8fc81a6305b *ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64.iso
24ea1163ea6c9f5dae77de8c49ee7c03 *ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
8d35fea8c16597a6f4dd07f8e18e2166 *ubuntu-8.10-mid-lpia.img
e3028a105a083339be8e5af5afbe7444 *ubuntu-8.10-server-amd64.iso
a2ec9975a91e1228c8292ed9799dc302 *ubuntu-8.10-server-i386.iso
2796c696ab368415a30fddc8278e08b0 *wubi.exe

Let the group know of your progress.

JimR

"JimR" wrote in message
news:5arst5-81f.ln1@oneyv.dyndns.org...
> Darkelldar wrote:
>> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets to
>> the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I have
>> to power down the PC at the power supply switch.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>
> Did you check the md5sum before you burned the CD? Here are some that are
> shown on the ubuntu site. I believe that you can also check the md5sum of
> the CD itself, but depending on what OS you are using to view it, the
> commands are different.
>
> ea6d44667ea3fd435954d6e1f0e89122 *ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso
> f9e0494e91abb2de4929ef6e957f7753 *ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso
> f9cdb7e9ad85263dde17f8fc81a6305b *ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64.iso
> 24ea1163ea6c9f5dae77de8c49ee7c03 *ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
> 8d35fea8c16597a6f4dd07f8e18e2166 *ubuntu-8.10-mid-lpia.img
> e3028a105a083339be8e5af5afbe7444 *ubuntu-8.10-server-amd64.iso
> a2ec9975a91e1228c8292ed9799dc302 *ubuntu-8.10-server-i386.iso
> 2796c696ab368415a30fddc8278e08b0 *wubi.exe
>
> Let the group know of your progress.
>
> JimR

24ea1163ea6c9f5dae77de8c49ee7c03 *ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso is the one I
downloaded with BitTorrent. Burned the ISO with ISO recorder v3 on Vista.
Did the CD check. No disk errors were found.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:59:09 -0600
"Darkelldar" wrote:

> The keystokes did not work.
>
> Seems like the keyboard & mouse stop responding.

Okay. My next question would be to see if you can try to use the
alternate CD and see if you get the problem when Intrepid is installed.

If so, then boot into a recovery shell on the installed system (select
"Recovery Mode" in at the boot screen). When it gives you a shell,
bring up your Ethernet interface, and do:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

This will let you login (say, using PuTTY) from another system. When
the console appears to lock up in X11, you can SSH into the box and
look to see if there are any issues logged in any of the following log
files:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/home/USER/.xsession-errors
/var/log/messages
/var/log/syslog

You can type "less LOGFILE" to display the LOGFILE on screen, and press
PG DOWN to get to the bottom of it. The relevant errors, if any,
should be in the last two or three screens' worth of the files.

If there *are* any errors or anything you're unsure of, please post
that so that we can take a look at it.

Also, if nobody here can help, I would recommend that you seek out your
local Linux User Group or Ubuntu LoCo. Many are planning installfests
and release parties (particularly the LoCos). You should be able to
find someone that will be willing to take a look at it for you for the
price of a cup of coffee or a six pack of beer or a case of soda, if
that even.

--- Mike

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Dan C wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:03:08 -0600, Darkelldar wrote:
>
>> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets to the
>> screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I have to power
>> down the PC at the power supply switch.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Yeah. Stick with Windoze. You're not ready for something like this.

Halloween is over. Stop harassing people, Monk Dan!

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> I will try the keystrokes and see what happens. I did get Hardy to
> install once but could not get wireless or the sound to work. So I want
> to try 8.10

Mind to list the hardware in your PC?

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"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" wrote in message
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>> I will try the keystrokes and see what happens. I did get Hardy to
>> install once but could not get wireless or the sound to work. So I want
>> to try 8.10
>
> Mind to list the hardware in your PC?

GA-M51GM-S2G AM2 Motherboard
Athlon 3200+ CPU
2 Gig's DDR2 667 ram
Maxtor 120 Gig Sata drive
XfX 7300 GS 512mb Video card
LG DVD burner IDE
Standard 101 key PS2 keyboard
Standard 3 button USB mouse

On 2008-11-01, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

>> Yeah. Stick with Windoze. You're not ready for something like this.

> That was wholly uncalled for.
>
> Head on over to comp.os.linux.advocacy, your type is quite welcome
> there.

I've heard that place is a sewer, and I don't bother with it.

Bugger off.



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On 2008-11-01, Darkelldar wrote:

> The keystokes did not work.
>
> Seems like the keyboard & mouse stop responding.


It *seems* like they stop responding, or they actually *do* stop
responding?



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"Dan C" wrote in message
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> On 2008-11-01, Darkelldar wrote:
>
>> The keystokes did not work.
>>
>> Seems like the keyboard & mouse stop responding.
>
>
> It *seems* like they stop responding, or they actually *do* stop
> responding?
>
>
>
> --
> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

They stop responding.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:57:21 -0600, Darkelldar wrote:

>>> Seems like the keyboard & mouse stop responding.

>> It *seems* like they stop responding, or they actually *do* stop
>> responding?

> They stop responding.

Assuming you are using a USB mouse and KB, it sounds like your BIOS is not
set up correctly to support "legacy" USB devices. You should fix that.


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Darkelldar wrote:
> Just downloaded 8.10 and it won't run the LiveCD or install, It gets
> to the screen with the Ibex art and locks up. No mouse or keyboard. I
> have to power down the PC at the power supply switch.
>
> Any ideas?


Does your "just" downloaded mean that is all you did.

How about the MD5SUM check to verify the download was good?

Then did you also MD5SUM the burned CD-R to be sure it is a good burn?

Finally, did you run the Check CD for Errors test when it booted?

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Darkelldar wrote:
>
> "Dan C" wrote in message
> news:slrnggnk7n.360.youmustbejoking@moria.lan...
>> On 2008-11-01, Darkelldar wrote:
>>
>>> The keystokes did not work.
>>>
>>> Seems like the keyboard & mouse stop responding.
>>
>>
>> It *seems* like they stop responding, or they actually *do* stop
>> responding?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
>
> They stop responding.


They "stop" responding, or they never did respond?

If they indeed did stop responding, then at what point?


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