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Re: after upgrade to ibex, eeepc won't start anymore! :(

 

theresa, i agree, do as david says

Dimitris Symeonidis
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
a mosquito!" - Amnesty International



On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 16:04, David Tremblay <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> If you have installed ubuntu with a USB stick instead of a CD you must edit
> your fstab because there's two entry for your cd-rom, please provide it here
> so we can check
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Theresa <rockprinzess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> hello! i've now freshly installed ubuntu hardy, and everything seems to
>> work better than ever before, even wi-fi. wow.
>>
>> the only thing that still bothers me a lot is, when i plug in my usb
>> device, it's not automatically mounted, like on my kubuntu machine, and this
>> hasnt got anything to do with /etc/fstab, because on my kubuntu machine i
>> havent edited the fstab file either and it still recognizes and mounts my
>> usb stick automatically. hmmm
>>
>> when i plug it in, it says it cant mount it because it requires root
>> rights. so eventually i have to mount it manually through the terminal. pain
>> in the arse. :(
>>
>> do you have any advice for that to make my life with my eeepc more
>> pleasurable :D
>>
>> thanks a lot :)
>>
>> theresa
>>
>> 2008/11/4 Dimitris Symeonidis <azimout@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> hi theresa,
>>> which version of the eee do you have?
>>> what you could try is log into a terminal and remove compiz and
>>> compiz-core
>>> tell us if this worked for you
>>> good luck
>>>
>>> Dimitris Symeonidis
>>> "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
>>> a mosquito!" - Amnesty International
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 22:09, Theresa <rockprinzess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Hello friends,
>>> >
>>> > I couldn't resist and thought i'd go for an upgrade to Ibex, as maybe
>>> > it
>>> > would solve my wi-fi issues. The upgrade finished and then i clicked to
>>> > restart the system, after the restart everything worked fine until all
>>> > of
>>> > the sudden the eeepc would restart once again, without me doing
>>> > anything.
>>> > From then on I can't start it anymore. I can log in via tty2 and
>>> > tty3...for
>>> > example i log in and then start GDM via
>>> > sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
>>> >
>>> > then the GDM login screen appears, but I can't type anything or use the
>>> > touchpad at all....the cursor just wouldn't move :(
>>> >
>>> > I then restart the whole machine, and it's a vicious cylce, the machine
>>> > wouldn't start GDM by itself, and when i start it over sudo /etc/....
>>> > i'm
>>> > not able to type anything.
>>> >
>>> > Please tell me this is not the end of the world, and that it's a known
>>> > issue
>>> > :((((((
>>> >
>>> > I really really really shouldn't have upgraded, but everything seemed
>>> > to
>>> > work fine, so I don't know what the problem is. :(
>>> >
>>> > damn my curiosity.
>>> >
>>> > I'll appreciate any help! many thanks in advance!
>>> >
>>> > Theresa
>>> >
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>>
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