[mythtv-users] New Mythbuntu 14.04 battle with nvidia boot up

[faginbagin]

On 10/17/2014 11:07 AM, Craig Huff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks!  I'll give that a try, but I suspect I'll get the same display
>> as I do if I hit the escape key when the splash screen first appears.
>> Here's hoping that is not the case and this works.
>>
>> --
>> Craig.
> 
> 
> I was wrong about it showing only the same info as results after
> hitting the escape key.  Sadly, I still have lockup problems.
> 
> The symptom is still that on cold boots it gets just so far then
> nothing works, not even ctrl+alt+F1 or ctrl+alt+del.  Note that the
> problem is only on cold boots -- several tests of warm boots have all
> succeeded -- go figure.  (Where by warm boot I mean either issuing the
> command "sudo shutdown -r now" or going through the menu system to
> choose a system restart.)
> 
> On failures, the following line is always the last line on the screen:
> * Stopping System V runlevel compatibility.............[ OK ]
> 
> On successful bootups, the above line may/may not have others that
> follow before the screen switches over to X and the desktop gets
> displayed, then hidden by the frontend window, but that disappears and
> I get a B&W diagonal pinstripe desktop with no toolbar or icons until
> I hit alt+tab.  Doing so results in the frontend window displaying.
> That means I have another problem to look into once I get this one
> resolved.  This is on a vanilla Mythbuntu 14.04.1 install (so far) and
> there are no other applications being started up that open a window,
> so I don't know why the FE window loses focus.
> 
> I just tried another time (not sure it matters, but from frozen system
> I hit the front panel reset button and hit return in the grub menu to
> retry the default boot option) and got something different that I see
> rarely.  After the "Stopping System V runlevel" line there were a
> number of lines associated with [Hardware Error].  The first reported
> watchdog timeout due to lack of progress and about a dozen lines later
> it reported kernel panic and shutting down cpus with NMI.
> 
> Anyone with an insight into what the heck is going (not going) on?
> 
> --
> Craig.

I'm sorry my suggestion didn't help. Maybe it's time to accept the possibility your hardware is too old for 14.04 and you should just stick with 12.04?

Regards,
Helen