[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-29 Thread Kees Cook
** Also affects: plymouth (Ubuntu Natty) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Also affects: plymouth (Ubuntu Maverick) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-25 Thread Orzech
It happened on Ubuntu 10.10 just at runtime during web surfing too. System was useless after showing blank screen with GLIb-WARNING **: getpwid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0), had to force laptop turn off. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-23 Thread phil gray
This error also occurs on my HP mini 110 running ubuntu 10.10. I get: GLIB WARNING ** GLib - getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id when returning from suspend mode, but it goes away after a few seconds. I also sometimes get the error message when booting, and it wil not go away, and ubuntu

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-18 Thread Christoph
Hi, I had this odd warning getpwid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0) some time ago (I think it was karmic) and got yesterday the same problem with lucid. Since there are already some Bugs filed (565936 and 531027) I decided to add a comment to this open bug what was the solution for me.

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-15 Thread mrandrzejak
Im having the same problem on an older P4 Sony Viao PCV-RS310. Burned DVD discs of 10.04 and10.10 give me this error. I tried burning a CD of 10.10 and I got into the install phase, partitioned the drive, and then during install it failed. Tomorrow I will attempt to install 10.04 from official

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-15 Thread mrandrzejak
Is there any sort of fix for this or work around? -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-15 Thread anton.pussep
Same on Ubuntu 10.10 and different hardware. Keeps me from installing Ubuntu 10.10. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-13 Thread komputes
I get this error in between boot stages in 10.10. I can always go back to tty7 (ctrl-alt-f7) to see the error. The error doesn't prevent me from booting, therefore it only seems to be aesthetic to me. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-09 Thread yoblin
Same issue. Doesn't prevent me from booting, it will recover from the error, but when I plug in my external monitor I sometimes get this error and it can't recover. need to reboot. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-03 Thread José Lou Chang
I never had this error with Ubuntu Lucid. But, now that I fresh installed Kubuntu 10.10 (from RC release) I get the error when turning on the laptop: (process 347): Glib-warning **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0) After that message appeared, the whole system became inactive or

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-03 Thread José Lou Chang
Just in case I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 and my lspci | grep VGA output is: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-02 Thread JarekJ83
same problem in Maverick 10.10 when i get ctrl+alt F1 etc.. (proces 290) GLIB - warning getpwuid_r() : failed due to unknown uster id (o) -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-10-02 Thread JarekJ83
after todays actualizations its workin for me now -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-29 Thread Mark
I have tried to boot current pre-RC-Kubuntu Maverik Desktop Installer CD on my system (Thinkpad X201). Unfortunately booting was impossible due to this bug. I tried it several times. Desktop installer was used from USB-Stick. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-29 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-25 Thread arjordan
It is annoying! It happens almost every startup of the notebook. I had to reboot up to five times. Is there a solution to avoid plymouth to do what Steve says in #74? -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-10 Thread Tory
I'm getting this error two. I have basically a fresh install of 10.10 beta Dell Latitude e6410 and just prior to this I was trying to get my xorg to work -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-10 Thread Tory
I just removed the xorg file, and I got passed the error -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-08 Thread nutznboltz
Are you running nscd? I got around user account issues by installing nscd but we have a customized environment that uses LDAP. Older releases did not require nscd. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
nscd has nothing to do with this. The message is spurious and caused by plymouth loading glib, which tries to look up the name of the root user, before the root filesystem is mounted. The bug is marked invalid because the warning has *nothing to do with* any problems you're experiencing; it's an

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-06 Thread l0b0
100% reproducible (after soft and hard boot) with 10.04 x86 Netbook boot SD card on Asus Eee PC 900, and with 10.04 64bit USB boot disk on HP desktop machine. How can this still be Invalid and Undecided with so many reports? -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-09-03 Thread arjordan
I have the same error happening in Kubuntu 10.04 (amd64) after upgrade from 9.10 and also after performing a fresh installation. Both of the installations were from the alternate CD: (process 373): GLIb-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0) The only solution is to hit

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-08-31 Thread runbei
Problem still exists on an HP 7100 as of 8/31/10. I'm using Mint 9 (Ubuntu 10.04). I unplugged all drives except the boot drive to see if it was a problem with the IDE or SATA chains. Nope, still see the GLib warning message. If I press Enter at that message, I see a bunch of fail messages and

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-08-27 Thread Dave Gilbert
This symptom also seen on Asus eeepc 1001ha; maybe 1in 5 boots? (Intel graphics, 1GB RAM - Lucid, previously upgraded from Karmic) -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-08-16 Thread MurkyMurk
It's CD/DVD drive specific. I get the error when I use my Emperex DVDRW 8x but not when I use my Emperex DD DVDRW 16x. Everything else is identical as i have to physically swap the EIDE cable over from one drive to the other. Lucid LiveCD hangs with the 8x but boot with the 16x duplicate bugs

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-30 Thread Ajay Chebbi
There is nothing to upgrade... This happened to me on a blank machine when trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 GA from a CD. The work around I found was hit escape on the splash screen (where there is a square = little man pic at the bottom). then it goes to the menu and works fine. After installation

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-30 Thread fejes
My comment was premature - I still get this error. After 4 clean boot sequences, the computer must have had a kernel panic (flashing lights on the keyboard, and no possible recovery), followed by three boots where this error was present. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4;

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-28 Thread Andre Tadeu de Carvalho
I had this problem updating initramfs-tools from another repository which I had to add to get some packages needed in my job. I had to enable the other 'backports' and 'multiverse' repositories. Since it is written in sources.list these repositories does not receive security updates from Ubuntu,

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-28 Thread fejes
either update-grub or a recent update seems to have worked for me - I no longer see the error any more. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-26 Thread dRewsus
try this: sudo update-grub source: http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/10-4-boot-problem-glib-warning-help-197907291.html -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-24 Thread Ajay Chebbi
Same problem while installing on Thinkpad T42 -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-21 Thread natuk
Exactly the same problem here on a Lenovo X200 and a Lenovo X61 with 10.04LTS. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-20 Thread shane
Same again here. Running on an HP G62 laptop. It happens every several boots, seems completely random and it DOES slow down boot considerably but usually does finish booting eventually. I also have a Maverick testing install and on that I get this error EVERY single boot. It is difficult to

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-19 Thread Ca67
Hello, I have this error as well, but it just shows sometimes. I press the power button again and the netbook shuts down. Then I start it again and it works normal. I scanned all the comments, there no perfect solution yet? (process:295): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-07-10 Thread Raman
Well, after waiting for a solution (one which I could do myself without spending days at learning more about linux immediately) to the problem for a month now, I decided to reinstall 10.04 using the alternate cd. Before anything else, I logged onto vista and deleted all of the linux partitions

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-28 Thread Patrik Nilsson
I did the following change: gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf --- contents --- Option BlankTime 0 Option StandbyTime 0 Option SuspendTime 0 Option OffTime 0 Option NoPM true SubSection extmod Option omit DPMS EndSubSection --- end --- Before my change xorg.conf

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-25 Thread antonio
Same error on my toshiba satellite a100 that doesn't boot after the message. In my case happens after the Routine Check of drives. If booting into recovery mode everything is fine. o.s. ubuntu 10.04 LTS -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-19 Thread buntolo
Computer: hp Compaq 6720s OS: 10.04 64 bit full install official release (no upgrade, no alpha/beta/RC) I've got the same error 4 or 5 times in 114 boots (i've counted them with bootchart), except that I've got number 344. (process:344): GLib WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-16 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
This bug makes a fully functional ubuntu LTS installation completely useless, and the only known solution is to install a different operating system. This bug MUST be paid more attention, both by users and by developers. I've seen it today simultaneously on a eeepc 1005ha and a fixed pc made by

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-16 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Please disregard my comments. I had not seen all the comments from Steve. There is no such thing as this bug. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-11 Thread orngjce223
Affected, Sony VAIO VGN-C190G, upgraded from Karmic to Lucid release and then quietly upgraded further. Problem seems not to affect booting up, however ominous message may turn off less-technically-inclined users. No multiple monitors. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4;

Re: [Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-11 Thread Adrien Lamothe
In my case, it prevented the system from booting, the system hung. --- On Fri, 6/11/10, orngjce223 orngjce...@yahoo.com wrote: From: orngjce223 orngjce...@yahoo.com Subject: [Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-10 Thread Ryan Schwenker
i get the same error as Raman does, but it seems to only be happening to me if i boot up my laptop without it plugged in, if i unplug it while Ubuntu is running, or if i change the screen brightness. If you need any debug message log things, just let me know which ones you need to diagnose the

Re: [Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-10 Thread Adrien Lamothe
I had the problem on a desktop machine. --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Ryan Schwenker gumsh...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ryan Schwenker gumsh...@gmail.com Subject: [Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console To:

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-05 Thread Raman
Today I installed a few updates on my 10.04 which has been running absolutely fine for over a month at this stage. Before installing the updates I got a warning saying that some of the update packages could not be authenticated. I decided not to install those updates, but, after every reboot when

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-04 Thread Jeff Hoogland
I all of the sudden started getting this on my Asus T101MT netbook Super annoying :-/ It will boot once every three of four tries, otherwise it hangs with the glib message... Trying the fix listed about for removing the option from the kernel menu. ~Jeff -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-06-03 Thread Robert
Same here, feels like a race condition while initializing the user- space. This is getting annoying. -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-05-29 Thread Andreas Schoenegger
Getting this generic error message on two (very different machines: 1 Acer Netbook, 1 HP Centrino Laptop)! Machine A runs 10.04 LTS Netbook edition, error first occured maybe one week now. Machine B runs 10.04 LTS 32 Bit, worked fine until last reboot I did this morning (an update must have

[Bug 532984] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console

2010-05-18 Thread Steve Langasek
** Summary changed: - Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot, with (process 239): GLib-WARNING **: getpwid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0), on HP Compaq Pentium 4 + Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console -- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha