I have a Dell Latitude D410 that I bought used with Ubuntu installed on it. It worked fine for several months.  I updated to 12.04. I wanted to read Nook books on it, so i tried to find the software to do so.  I may have downloaded Wine onto the machine,  but I don't remember.  I discovered i could read my Nook books at the Barnes and Noble web site,  so I did that a bit.  The next day, when I started it, all I got was a black screen.  Right clicking would produce a small box that allowed me to open a terminal window or a web browser,  but nothing else.  I decided to update to 14.04,  which I think I did successfully, but now it's even worse.  I can't even get the box to open a terminal window.  Imma try installing 14.10 from a DVD, since I can get to the bios and change the boot order. I welcome any suggestions.
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I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer.  When I boot Ubuntu, it boots to a black screen.  How can I fix this? Table of Contents:
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I'm new in this forum.  I know, that this is an old problem and I have been reading other questions regarding this. However, I've been unable to find the solution.   I've been trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 on my Asus Vivobook F200MA machine from USB, but the screen goes black, if I choose any of the options. It is a new machine, with only freedos on it.   If I follow the instructions on     it still doesn't work.   SATA is set to AHCI, Secure Boot is disabled, CSM is enabled.   Do you have any ideas, how I could install it?   Edit:   I have tried:   checking the usb for errors (no errors), verified the integrity (alright),  disabled the secure boot enabled csm set SATA to AHCI from the menu (try without installing, install and check for defects) because the screen goes black.
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I'm fairly new to Ubuntu and have just installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 on a spare machine to experiment and play with!  The installation went without problem, however, whenever the OS boots the monitor displays an error message saying the resolution is out of range and I can't see to do anything - I  can wait as long as I like, but nothing appears.  Ubuntu is the only OS installed so bypasses GRUB on boot, although the GRUB screen is also out of range if forced on startup.  I can access a shell from the recovery mode and I can get at a terminal through a live CD of the desktop version but have had little luck with it either.  I've been trying to figure this out for days and I'm at a total loss.  Any thoughts?
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I have opened up  on launchpad too, but in the interest of getting a bigger response base I am posting it here, hoping someone will pick it up.  Natty doesn't behave very well with the Intel 82845GL chipset. I booted my old machine with Natty today to test drive it. The specs are:  Processor: Celeron 2.4GHz Video: Intel 845GL RAM: 1GB  The first problem is that the display is borked! What do I mean? Well, see for yourself:     If that gets fixed (and it did for a while but is back now), Unity is disabled.   I think these issues are owed to hardware acceleration being disabled...or in other words not the right driver for my hardware. A google search on 'intel 82845GL ubuntu' does return other users having similar problems in the past but I haven't been able to pick out a solution in the many many discussions on the subject- partly owed to my 'linux naivety' I guess...but maybe you can help?
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I am presently running Ubuntu 12.04 and using Chrome/Firefox along with OpenDNS (have tried Google Public DNS as well as DNS of my ISP).   Suddenly, a lot of websites that I visit frequently don't load anymore. Some of them are imgur, yahoo, , microsoft and addons page of firefox. I am sure there are many more that won't load.  I have Windows 7 in Dual-Boot and there are no problems whatsoever in opening these pages on Windows.  Brief History  Two weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 12.10. I faced this issue right away. I thought something must have gone wrong with the installation, so I removed Ubuntu 12.10 and instead installed Lubuntu 12.10, but the issue persisted. So, I tried opening these webpages in Live Environments (of Ubuntu 12.10, Lubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.1) from USB. The issue was there for Ubuntu 12.10 and Lubuntu 12.10. However, I was able to access these webpages from Ubuntu 12.04.1. So, I installed 12.04.1 on my HardDisk. Everything on 12.04 was fine till yesterday; but suddenly, these sites don't load anymore. Windows 7 in Dual-Boot works flawlessly.  Updates  (1) In response to Zhang's Answer to check basic terminal commands - I have used both OpenDNS and GooglePublic DNS to test these commands (Restarted my PC in between). These are the terminal outputs while  and while .  (2) This is the result of ifconfig - .  (3) Thereafter I tried to use wget to check if the problem was with the Browser. However, it didn't work for webpages which are not loading in my browser. This is the  showing it for Google(works) and Yahoo(doesn't work).  (4) Then followed the instructions listed at  to disable IPV6. Also, restarted my PC. However, it didn't help either.  (5) Then, I edited my Wired Connection through Network-Manager to ignore IPV6. After that, I tried to open Yahoo in Browser -  it did load the first time. However, when I tried again, it didn't load. Other problem sites didn't load at all.  (6) Again tried wget. However, this time passed the argument -4 to it; ie; wget -4 www.yahoo.com. But once again, didn't get any response.  (7) Then, tried to fiddle with MTU. Followed  to check what is the maximum that I can set. For me, the maximum possible was 10324. Also tried other values like 1500, 1492, 1452 and 100. But this didn't help either.  (8) Re-installed Ubuntu 12.04.1, wiping out the previous installation and as such all other changes. Also installed all the available updates. For the first half-an-hour, I was able to load all the webpages - including the ones which had problem. But lateron, I have the same issue as earlier - not able to load pages like yahoo, imgur, microsoft, fed-sudoku, etc.   (9) Question by laurent     From wget pastebin info in the question, the problem is not DNS as the wget and dig commands reach Yahoo's IP. This said, I don't know why nothing downloads with wget! Have you set a firewall? (you can check with sudo iptables -L). In ifconfig results, there are 2 interfaces, ppp0 and eth0. Which one should be used to connect to internet? Could you post the result of route command? Obs: eth0 has no IPV4 address so I think it is not properly configured (how is /etc/network/interfaces?)   Here is the  for terminal outputs of sudo iptables -L ; route  and  cat /etc/network/interfaces. I am not running any firewall. It's a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.1. ppp0 is used to connect to the internet (this takes username and password which was given by my ISP) and eth0 is the Intel's OnBoard LAN which connects the modem through ethernet port.  (10) Tried to append nameserver 208.67.222.222 line in /etc/resolv.conf (since, I am using OpenDNS). But this didn't help (even after restart). So reverted the changes back. This is also a part of answer provided by laurent - it's required if I want to use OpenDNS.  Other Info   I have an ADSL modem (not a router) connected to the PC with an Ethernet Port. To connect to the internet, I have a DSL Connection. So, I use PPPOE to connect. Terminal Output for System Information sudo lshw -C network ; cat /etc/resolv.conf ; ifconfig -a -
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I installed Windows 10 on my Dell Precision T5400 a little over a week ago. It is a pretty old computer but it has two physical 4 core xeon processors, 32GB of Ram and a Crucial 525GB SSD. It is very speedy once it gets booted up and I have been using it for doing video editing and playing around with the new linux subsystem built in. The lengthy boot time is very inconvenient though. When installing it took forever to boot and each subsequent time has taken forever to boot. I actually thought it was just installing updates the first few times. I recently started trying to diagnose and repair the problem and I have only been able to narrow the excessive boot time down to the pre session init phase. I would also note that it takes just as long to do a safe mode boot without networking. I downloaded and installed the performance recorder tools but beyond seeing that it is something in the pre session init phase I am at loss as to what to do next. If someone could help steer me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate. I am unsure how to post the logs in this post but I will be glad to with some instruction. Thanks again in advance.
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I've tried to install maybe ten Linux distros on my new PC, and every time I have problems with video drivers: black screen or visual artefacts.  I was able to install only Ubuntu 12.04.3 64-bit, but also with problems: black screen on startup (sometimes all was normal when I used Live mode before install, sometimes I was not able to load Live Mode - Ubuntu says that I have problems with video and gives me a choice with four elements, one of them "use safe graphics mode", but I even can't choose this - the system is frozen).   In tty I installed nvidia-current, but it didn't help me. Every boot I need to press ESC and enter rescue mode and just press Resume and after this the system boots normally. If I try to do a normal restart I get a black screen after Ubuntu logo again.  I tried switching nvidia driver in the options - I have version 319-updates and version 319 [Recommended], but neither works.  I have Palit GeForce GTX650, all updates.
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Dell LAtitude E6430 with CPU Intel® Core™ i5-3210M, 64 bits, no longer boots after updating 14.04 LTS system to kernel 3.13.0-66. It hangs off after completion of the password. Back to the 3.13.0-64 kernel works, but still with a system error, pending since about the beginning of the year (beginning approximately for the kernel 3.13.0-40) and never corrected by subsequent upgrades. It seems that the system 14.04 LTS is going worse and worse on this computer. Is there a solution ?
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After upgrading from Kubuntu 20.04 to Kubuntu 20.10, I could not login as it just showed a black screen after boot. So I switched to command line and reinstalled Kubuntu desktop with sudo apt-get install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop kde-*. After that, i was able to login and can use all applications but the icons and background of input boxes of system apps have turned black as shown below  Notice the black squares at the bottom right in the system tray, they used to be icons for Volume, Network, Bluetooth, etc. I can however click them and they behave as they used to. Also the desktop apps' icons are black.  Notice the input fields at the right of Layout, Wallpaer type and also the button backgrounds of the window. After looking at some logs I noticed that Akonadi server was not starting up because of an unknown MySQL error and installed MariaDb as i read somewhere that it might help. Now I can start Akonadi server with akonadictl manually but still the same issue. I restarted plasma with kquitapp5 plasmashell &amp;&amp; kstart5 plasmashell but still same issue. Also Akonadi does not start automatically when session begins.
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I'm having some problems getting Ubuntu to install. I'm running Windows XP Home (32bit) on an older Dell Dimension 2350 with 1GB ram, trying to install either Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32Bit) or 13.04 (32Bit) inside VirtualBox. Both versions of Ubuntu don't make it past the purple screen with the loading dots. When I change over to the "non-graphical" version, with the scrolling text, it starts to list a series of tests that are either [ok] or [fail]. There are only a few that fail, and my search on those indicates that they're not that important. There are a few settings for this VM that I've tried tweaking based on other searches for an answer (such as Enabling IO APIC, switching the Chipset to ICH9, changing the Video Memory size, Enabling 3D Acceleration, and Enabling PAE/NX. More or less, I get to the same point.  (Once I got to the screen with Desktop in the upper left corner, and the red-ish background. But an error came up that basically said there was an error, and that I could send off a report or hit cancel. I hit cancel, and instead of the installer coming up, nothing happened)  The last check that is run is "Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ok], and a bunch of Starting [ok]s. Then I get a black screen, then a half purple half black screen graphical error. Sorta looks like snow, I don't know how else to describe it. After a while. That goes away and is replaced by a black screen again. Nothing else happens.    I like to think I'm fairly good at solving problems and following instructions, but I don't even know how to go about diagnosing this. Most of the solutions I've seen seem to involve entering things into a command line, but doesn't the OS have to be installed to be able to do that?  This is a for fun/learning experience project, so it's nothing too pertinent. But I would like to figure this out.
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I just got my laptop in the mail and I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It all went smooth until it booted up and I noticed my touch pad doesn’t work at all. It works perfectly on Windows and when I use a wireless mouse it works as well.  Here's my xinput:  ⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]   ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                    id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]   ⎜   ↳ 2.4GHz RF  KEYBOARD  AND  MOUSE               id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]   ⎜   ↳ DLL06AB:00 06CB:78F1                          id=13   [slave  pointer  (2)]   ⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                    id=15   [slave  pointer  (2)]   ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]       ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                   id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ Power Button                                  id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ Video Bus                                     id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ Power Button                                  id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ Sleep Button                                  id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ 2.4GHz RF  KEYBOARD  AND  MOUSE               id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ Integrated_Webcam_HD                          id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                  id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]       ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                              id=16   [slave  keyboard (3)]     I would love to have my track pad working and I've done some googling and browsing of this site and nothing I've tried has worked. Any input would be great. Let me know if there’s any other information that can help remedy this. I'm pretty new to Linux. Thank you very much.  Edit: I've updated the kernel to 3.19 and checked my Additional Drivers which had nothing for me. Neither of which worked.
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I have ASUS Rog GL 552 VW Dh71 laptop .   I am not able to install Ubuntu or any Linux on my machine. I tried installation with Ubuntu 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04 beta 2 with no success.  My screen goes black after pressing install Ubuntu on grub in 16.04 and I receive error messages   nouveau E[ PIBUS] [000:01:00.0] HUB:0x6013d4 0x00005700 (0x1c 408200) nouveau E[ DRM]failed to idle channel 0xccc0001 [DRM]   in 14.04 and 15.10, what should I do ?
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I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and I am stuck into blue screen with no message.  Its just showing a cursor nothing else.    Any help is appreciated.
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After upgrading from 14.04 to 14.10 my computer cannot boot anymore, it is stuck at the logo screen (with animated dots).  By displaying the boot process, I see that it is stuck at "Stopping log initial device creation". When I press Ctrl+Alt+F2, only a flickering dash appears, and I can't even log in.    Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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I used the upgrade manager to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. When I start the machine, I only get a black flickering screen now. I was using the nvidia binary drivers before the upgrade.     NOTE: This question (and answer) relate to a specific issue when upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10 while using Nvidia or AMD binary drivers. You might experience a completely different issue. For that please see the more general question .
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I want to install the latest ubuntu (12.04.2 LTS) in my ultrabook asus S56C.  I tried to boot with USB &amp; CD, but both stuck in black screen after choosing "Try Ubuntu..." or "Install Ubuntu"...  Need some help.  Thanks
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I'd like to install Ubuntu 13.04 on Lenovo g580 and I have this issue. After a few seconds of booting liveUSB screens gets black and nothing happens. I've read somewhere about connecting second screen to solve similar issue. Of course this didn't solve it, but it provided something like terminal with     initramfs>   and few basic commands ..  Is it possible to install Ubuntu on Lenovo g580 hardware? I also checked  Ubuntu 12.04: failed  Mint 13: SUCCEED (x32 and x64)  Is it because of drivers? Of course I want Ubuntu instead of Mint. :)