Ubuntu Studio failure

[Eric "Shubes"]

Will it boot into single user mode (run level 1)?

Dazed_75 wrote:
> 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 82.211.81.145
> <http://82.211.81.145> offset -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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-Eric 'shubes'