Ubuntu Start Up
Mon, 2007-11-19 07:15 — deadfrog
It is happening more and more. When I switch on the computer it makes the right sounds, and all the right "OKs" but ten the screen comes up blank.
There is not even the Unbuntu colour background, just a white light background.
I then go through the process of ctrl+alt+backspace and get Destop Open. Click on that and get ???Password...As I did not load Ubuntu I do not know the password and cannot find out, so I then go backspace again and get Options, I press restart and wait until the computer shuts down and loads again.
Must be a better way? Any help would be nice.
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Ah, "intermittent fault",
Ah, "intermittent fault", the two most dreaded words in the tech support universe (to which the only reply can be "have you tried turning it off and on again?").
The fact that there have been no major changes to your software in recent months, yet it is "happening more and more", suggest to me that it's a hardware issue (something triggered by switching video modes). Anybody better informed than myself have any ideas? Does it only happen on start-up, Peter?
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is exactly the thing to do as a work-around. If I recall correctly, you wrote down your password in a notepad (the dead-tree type) somewhere.
I like the idea of an "Unbuntu" - sounds like the nerd's antichrist. I'm quaking in fear at the prospect of the coming of the Unbuntu. I wonder who it could be?