Public bug reported:
I'm having a weird problem. What happens is this: I turn on my laptop
and choose the kernel (or wait for the default to be chosen), and the
startup begins, but it interrupted with the message "kinit: no resume
image, doing normal boot..." It then says "ubuntu 8.10 richard-laptop
tty1" and gives a login prompt. I can login, but cannot get to the GUI.
I have looked at a few ways to resolve this from other reports of the
same error, including reconfiguring xserver and the video configuration.
When I type "startx" I get "fatal server error: no screens found. I
also had an error at one point that said "could not start the x server
(your graphical environment) due to some internal error", and suggested
restarting GDM when corrected. But I couldn't correct it. Restarting
GDM alone doesn't help.
To continue with the issue, I then login and, knowing that I can't get
to the GUI (and not being capable to do my internet browsing without
it), I shut it down "sudo shutdown now". However, the shutdown stalls
just before the graphical progress bar gets to the end. I then wait a
minute or more (I left it for 30 minutes once, to see if it would manage
anything, but no progress) and then hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. The laptop then
restarts with a completed shutdown. If I let Ubuntu restart at that
point, I have the same error.
HOWEVER... If after that restart I pull out the external HDD on which
Ubuntu is installed when the ThinkPad logo shows (before the choice of
OS), Windows loads. I login to Windows, and shut it down. Then I plug
in the external HDD again, turn on the laptop, and voila... no problem.
It loads normally, without display issues.
Can anyone advise with this? How does loading Windows allow me to then
load Ubuntu after? Why can't I load consecutive Ubuntu sessions
(shutting down in between)? Please help! Also -- I've only been using
linux for about 4 months. Please make things simple for me!
Background info:
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W500, which has an ATI video
card.
I installed Ubuntu to an external HDD, and have the laptop load from
that (via USB) when it's there.
I recently upgraded from a ThinkPad T43. When I migrated to the new
system, I just plugged in the HDD, setup the BIOS to load from it if
it's there, and carried on as usual. It was a pretty clean migration; I
expected driver issues but had none I could identify from within Ubuntu
(other than this).
I load from the external HDD as this is my work laptop, owned by my
employers, and I don't want to do anything that our IT guys would get
too pissed at, or that would leave too much of a footprint...
I've been having other problems with my video drivers in Windows, but
this isn't really the place for those. Just let me add that the video
card is works properly when the ATI drivers are there (in both Ubuntu
and Windows) but sometimes the drivers go AWOL -- I think it's related
to the docking station I use at work, though given this issue I wouldn't
be surprised if Ubuntu might be contributing to the issue.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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kinit/video error with windows workaround
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386911
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