Ubuntu will not load after load/splash screen

[wolfreak_99]

I'm kind of new to the forum, so I hope I am posting in the right section, and that I didn't miss an previously posted thread of the same problem. I'll go ahead and explain what I was doing before this happened, to make sure I give enough detail and idea of whats going on.

What was going on before:
Anyways, around 2 or 3 am this morning, I noticed my Firefox loading rather slow (took around 5 - 7 seconds to load and navigate pages, even google, and it would sometimes become unresponsive), I thought it may have been a addon problem, so I opened up a new Firefox profile with no addons but the browser crashed upon loading the certain page I was trying to view, and I figured I'd look into it later and use Chromium for a while (I'll be open, I was trying to watch an pron tube site, and when your, you know, you don't really feel like stopping to go technical and try to fix it or whatever), but Chromium said that the flash player wasn't installed. I thought it was kinda odd, but then again I didn't want to go technical and thought maybe since mozilla firefoxs engine loaded the flash, I'd use Mozilla Seamonkey which uses the same gecko engine. The flash wasn't working either on there.

I tried looking up to see if there was a 64bit deb package for flash, but they didn't have it, and I seen someone mention that doing the 'apt-get upgrade' upgrades it, so I did that, and it also said it installed some extra packages when doing it, but I figured it was just that getlibs grabbing the extra dependencies and went along with installing them (after all there shouldnt be much to lose since its from the repository, right?)

I restarted the computer to give the updates a chance to take effect (it didn't mention to restart, but I thought I'd go ahead and do it anyways to ensure it updated okay).

This is where the booting problem comes in:
When my laptop restarted, the loading was going across very slowly (I have ubuntu studio installed through regular ubuntu, so it was showing the text filling up), normally it would just fill a little bit of the first "U" in "Ubuntu Studio" and then be done quickly, but now it goes slowly all the way, and when it fills "Ubuntu Studio", it stills stays there, it doesn't load on.

I pressed the down button to see the terminal and it says this:
Code:

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda5: clean, 384229/810080 files, 10960231/32421170 blocks

I have no clue what to do now, and I wanted to ask for help before I go trying myself editing the command line boot process.

I would appreciate some help or advice (even if it doesn't work, I'd appreciate it anyways just for you attempting to help.). I will provide any info (if shown how to retrieve it that is lol) if it helps get a better idea. I am using my mothers laptop to type this out so I have access to this while in the boot process of Ubuntu on my laptop, so I should be able to follow instructions fairly easy.

Thank you so much for taking your time to read this and thank you even more if you can help me.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Which Graphics Card do you have?
Press Alt+Ctrl+F4. Does it switch to command line login prompt?

[Kloschüssel]

And a better question would be:

Did it start up after a while?

This just looks like a fsck was going on during boot. This happens depending on how often a filesystem was mounted and when it was last checked. If you didn't turn off your computer the last few days or (re) started it somewhat like 30 times since the last fsck it is just that and believe me, this operation CAN take a long time depending on the hardware (size of harddisk, brand, speed, ..). I've seen often that it takes more than 20 minutes - likely even longer. Unless fsck doesn't finish with something other than "clean" it is nothing to be afraid of.

[devils casper]

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda5: clean, 384229/810080 files, 10960231/32421170 blocks

According to above message, fsck has checked file system already and /dev/sda5 partition is clean. System is hanging after completing file system check.

[Kloschüssel]

Well, it may not the only partition it is checking. Anyway hard to determine from my point of view.

I just know that feeling, waiting there for the system to come up. If it is a server, pinging it a long time and likely getting afraid to have banged up something which requires manual intervention (if it is a server farm - take a ride). But in the end it was just a fsck that took some hour. Sometimes it is just good to be patient with these crackly little computers.

[wolfreak_99]

Hi and Welcome !

Which Graphics Card do you have?
Press Alt+Ctrl+F4. Does it switch to command line login prompt?

Thank you for the warm welcome! :)

I tried pressing Alt+Ctrl+F4 and it didn't show the command prompt, the loading white just flickered black then went back to white (check the second set of images I put in here to see what white im talking about)

I'm not exactly sure where to find the graphics card..
I have windows 7 and wubi installed in windows by the way, so if i need to edit anything i have access to the seperate partition now.
anyways I can't really find out where to find it, but here is something i did find if this is the info.

img686.imageshack.us/img686/3321/computerpropertieswindo.png

And a better question would be:

Did it start up after a while?

This just looks like a fsck was going on during boot. This happens depending on how often a filesystem was mounted and when it was last checked. If you didn't turn off your computer the last few days or (re) started it somewhat like 30 times since the last fsck it is just that and believe me, this operation CAN take a long time depending on the hardware (size of harddisk, brand, speed, ..). I've seen often that it takes more than 20 minutes - likely even longer. :D Unless fsck doesn't finish with something other than "clean" it is nothing to be afraid of.

I left it on for about 2 or 3 hours while I was gone, came back it was still "loading".

I think Devils Casper was right about the hanging part.

also, heres another 2 images showing what the problem looks like.

This is it going slowly across.. Before, it would just take up to halfway on the first "U", then it would continue, but this goins to "Ubu" pretty decent speed, then slowly goes on, like 1 pixel column every .5 or 1.5 seconds.

img256.imageshack.us/img256/8343/34442445990025428670565.jpg


and here it is when it is filled up.

img130.imageshack.us/img130/8074/36449445992855428670565.jpg

Also, before the "upgrade" it looked way better, but now it looks like something youd see from a dusty nintendo cartidge lol.


(it says I have to make 15 posts to put urls in, but I don't want to spam the board with pointless posts just to put them in, so you'll have to copy and paste, sorry lol)

[hatebreed]

you said you just upgraded? try to load your older kernel and see if it boots then.

[wolfreak_99]

you said you just upgraded? try to load your older kernel and see if it boots then.

if by that you mean try the other options on the grub menu, ive tried all options, it wont load for any.

im probably just going to reinstall ubuntu... my question is, i have (or had) alot of programs set up perfect like i wanted it to be (say firefox addon options etc), would there be any way of reinstaling it then adding the programs back to just as they were? i did use "sbackup" every now and then if that would help any..

[impert]

Hi

im probably just going to reinstall ubuntu... my question is, i have (or had) alot of programs set up perfect like i wanted it to be (say firefox addon options etc), would there be any way of reinstaling it then adding the programs back to just as they were?

If you back up your home folder that will save all the config files (the ones starting with a dot). You can then copy it to your new installation. However, as you were having problems with firefox, if I were you I'd copy .mozilla to say, dotmozilla, delete it, and run a clean firefox at first. I think you can then open Bookmarks>Organise bookmarks>Import and Backup>Import HTML, and give the path to the bookmarks.html, which will be something like:
~/dotmozilla/firefox/0hdrfk12/bookmarks.html
(the 0hdr . . part will be different)
That will get the bookmarks back; other configuration you can do by hand.