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Occasional Boot Failure - Ubuntu 20.04

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My mom is using an old HP box with Ubuntu Linux and, on occasion, gets the below error on boot. It's infrequent, maybe every 10th time, and shutting down and restarting the system has always fixed it. However, she isn't that comfortable with computers, and it concerns her.

 

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The computer is an HP Compaq dc7800 SFF model. It has a Core 2 Quad Q9400, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Nvidia Quadro 600, and an HP 128GB SSD. It also has an old PCI sound card installed.

 

The only other issue is that the computer sometimes fails to wake from sleep, which may or may not be related. Otherwise it runs surprisingly well given it might be older than someone reading this thread.

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6 minutes ago, Yua said:

I have found this thread about it.

 

https://www.linux.org/threads/acpi-error-after-installing-ubuntu-22-04.40993/

 

It appears that these errors are quite common and not problematic. There are also some steps to follow if you want to stop showing them.

That's not the same. The type shown there also occasionally comes up, but it always boots just fine immediately afterwards.

 

This error actually prevents the system from booting until a hard reset. After that, it has always then booted just fine, but it won't boot until shut off and turned back on again. It will just sit at this screen indefinitely otherwise.

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2 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

My mom is using an old HP box with Ubuntu Linux and, on occasion, gets the below error on boot. It's infrequent, maybe every 10th time, and shutting down and restarting the system has always fixed it. However, she isn't that comfortable with computers, and it concerns her.

 

IMG_20231128_181315464_HDR-1.thumb.jpg.2b63d3226bd56d0b517061777f6a0d74.jpg

 

The computer is an HP Compaq dc7800 SFF model. It has a Core 2 Quad Q9400, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Nvidia Quadro 600, and an HP 128GB SSD. It also has an old PCI sound card installed.

 

The only other issue is that the computer sometimes fails to wake from sleep, which may or may not be related. Otherwise it runs surprisingly well given it might be older than someone reading this thread.

Probably a graphic drivers issue.

This needs further investigating the system logs, install rsyslog and check the /var/log/kern.log after the issue happens for the full record.

You just see the ACPI on screen because they take priority for some reason, the real culprit is the GPU probably

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1 hour ago, Chunchunmaru_ said:

Probably a graphic drivers issue.

This needs further investigating the system logs, install rsyslog and check the /var/log/kern.log after the issue happens for the full record.

You just see the ACPI on screen because they take priority for some reason, the real culprit is the GPU probably

Interesting. I had thought it might be a CPU issue, since the latter half seems related to the CPU.

 

What pointed you to a graphics issue?

 

(I'll still install rsyslog as suggested, I'm just curious what I'm missing.)

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11 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

Interesting. I had thought it might be a CPU issue, since the latter half seems related to the CPU.

 

What pointed you to a graphics issue?

 

(I'll still install rsyslog as suggested, I'm just curious what I'm missing.)

Because when the graphics works, you will never see those ACPI messages (too much fast)

 

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You can add

 

nomodeset

 

If you enable the grub menu.  If it is disabled, try holding shift as you boot, or changing the timeout from 0 to a higher number, or, edit /etc/default/grub

 

and add after "linux" line that usually ends with "quiet splash"

 

add

 

nomodeset

 

to the end or anywhere that options like splash begin.  This disables all graphics software and uses CPU for all graphical processing.  If you can reboot the system many times witout issue, then try installing the new Nvidio driver, now with more open-source, version 545.  It may be available using the "additional drivers" progrom.

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How bad is e-waste?  Listen to that Joe Rogan episode.

 

"Now you get what you want, but do you want more?
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

Software suggestions


Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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