[GTALUG] FW: Problems with Ubuntu 18.10

[ted leslie]

As you mentioned you have an older piece of hardware. I would first look at
boot parameters that can be added.
but you say you can't get past the boot screen, but that can be far
ranging, in that,
did it not drop down one single kernel message? or did you get a screen
full and then it froze?
Surely it must have got off the grub screen?
You can also try a live CD of that kernel vintage.
look at modeset and such:
https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1613132.html
If you used a zfs or similar boot drive format, sometimes a new kernel will
break because it can't work with zfs (or similar) because that
isn't a compiled in or loadable module at time of boot.

-tl


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 5:08 PM Clive DaSilva via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
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> I am just resending this as I got ho responses
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> Clive
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> *From:* cdasilva at iprimus.ca <cdasilva at iprimus.ca>
> *Sent:* February 10, 2019 2:44 PM
> *To:* talk <talk-bounces at gtalug.org>
> *Subject:* Problems with Ubuntu 18.10
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> Hello
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> I had a problem with my recent Ubuntu 18.10 install which I thought that I
> should share. I was running Ubuntu 18.04 on an older Pentium (R)Dual Core
> CPU E5200 with 4 gigs of ram and things went well. About 2 months ago, I
> noticed that there was an Ubuntu 18.10 so I thought that I would give it a
> try. So I downloaded Ubuntu 18.10 with kernel 4.18.0.10 and it worked well
> with all my machine learning stuff (Anaconda3, etc.). About 2 weeks ago,
> Ubuntu informed me that I had a kernel update so I downloaded the update
> (kernel 4.18.0.14) and tried to install it. Couldn’t get past the boot
> screen, so I reinstalled 4.18.0.10 but right away I was informed of the
> waiting update. I googled the issue and the only comment that made sense
> was to block Wayland being loaded and instead default to Xorg by adjust
> custom.conf  \etc\gdm3. That made no difference to my situation as described
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> After about a week of tearing my hair, I gave up and went back to Ubuntu
> 18.04 LTS, and am just sharing this in the event that any of you have had a
> similar experience with Ubuntu 18.10 (in my case – desktop).
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> Please feel free to comment
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