Try selecting the "recovery option" from the GRUB boot loader and see if
you can get to a console from there. If you have ssh already you can
also run the command from there. Otherwise, maybe you can boot a live
CD, mount your HDD partition from there and then modify the startup
scripts (unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what needs to be modified to
get your machine to boot into either a terminal or VESA x.org). Note
that Ubuntu does not use "init" so inittab is probably not affecting
this situation (ubuntu uses "upstart" instead).
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Description changed:
I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.04. The install went fine,
rebooted, tried to change display settings with the X randr utility, it
seemed to work and I rebooted. Upon reboot X wouldn't come up. It got as
far as completing the progress bar, and even saw some text after it, but
after that all I saw was some junk red pixels at the top of the screen.
I have two monitors, and an ATI card. I should mention that I have
Ubuntu 8.10 on this same machine and it works fine. I am attaching my
xorg.conf from the 9.04 install as well as the last Xorg.0.log file.
I'd start in runlevel 2, but someone smarter than me thought it was a
good idea to remove the inittab file, so I have no idea how to configure
the system to not try X.
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+ Graphics card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
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X does not start on 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366503
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