Ubuntu Studio failure

[Dazed_75]

UbuntuStudio 7.04 will not complete a bootup immediately upon install
completion.  The bootup shows its special splash screen and hides all the
system messages (GAWD I hate that).   Anyway, when the splash screen
disappears, the screen flashes with some patterns a few times and then goes
to a black screen and nothing ever shows again.

I used a Knoppix to look at a few things.  I could not see anything wrong in
the xorg.conf file (but when I tried in studio's recover mode to
dpkg-reconfigure xserver, there was an indication it was not installed).  I
looked at studio's logs (from Knoppix) to try to determine what the problem
was.  Obviously the release has a configuration problem but perhaps not the
reason for my failure.

Any ideas?

knoppix at Knoppix:/mnt/hda1/var/log$ sudo tail user.log.0
May 21 01:13:04 studio dhcdbd: Started up.
May 21 01:13:05 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.reason
May 21 01:13:05 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.reason
May 21 01:13:09 studio hpiod: 1.7.3 accepting connections at 2208...
May 21 01:13:11 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.domain_name
May 21 01:13:11 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.nis_domain
May 21 01:13:11 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.nis_servers

especially since this is the tail end of the syslog.0 file

May 21 01:13:12 studio NetworkManager: <information>^IClearing nscd hosts
cache.
May 21 01:13:12 studio NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_spawn_process ():
nm_spawn_process('/usr/sbin/nscd -i hosts'): could not spawn process.
(Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/nscd" (No such file or
directory))
May 21 01:13:12 studio NetworkManager: <information>^IActivation (eth0)
successful, device activated.
May 21 01:13:12 studio NetworkManager: <information>^IActivation (eth0)
Finish handler scheduled.
May 21 01:13:12 studio NetworkManager: <information>^IActivation (eth0)
Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
May 21 01:13:13 studio ntpdate[5440]: adjust time server 82.211.81.145offset -
0.459617 sec
May 21 01:13:13 studio avahi-daemon[4935]: Registering new address record
for fe80::20d:56ff:fe05:9af0 on eth0.*.
May 21 01:13:22 studio kernel: [   41.700938] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
May 21 01:17:01 studio /USR/SBIN/CRON[5445]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
May 21 01:18:10 studio anacron[5263]: Job `cron.daily' started
May 21 01:18:10 studio anacron[5451]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily'
to 2007-05-21

and the end of messages.0

May 21 01:13:10 studio kernel: [   29.076340] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
May 21 01:13:11 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.domain_name
May 21 01:13:11 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.nis_domain
May 21 01:13:11 studio dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found
under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.nis_servers
May 21 01:19:24 studio syslogd 1.4.1#20ubuntu4: restart.

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