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Installation issues / Re: black screen with cursor after avwizard

« on: February 05, 2010, 05:54:16 am »

I found the problem. I did this:
/etc/init.d/networking restart

It complained about an option with empty value.
couldn't read interfaces file /etc/network/interfaces
  option with empty value

Turns out the netmask and gateway for eth0 were empty, so I changed this:
netmask
gateway
To this:
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

Anyone else stumbling on this thread will have to determine the correct values in their own environment.
Try ifconfig on a working linux machine or ipconfig /all   on a windows machine.

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Installation issues / Re: black screen with cursor after avwizard

« on: February 05, 2010, 04:11:44 am »

I did a full reinstall from DVD.
KUbuntu install seemed fine, networking was fine.
Waited for an hour after the AV Wizard was done.
Rebooted
It went through "Starting Core Services please be patient..."
  "Installing Firefox"
  "Regenerating orbiter"
  I think it had already done these
Still have black screen with cursor (and networking seems broken, ifconfig comes back empty, no "lo" no "eth0")

It takes a long time to boot, probably timing out on networking stuff. i noticed that NFS and bind9 fail to startup, it also mentions networkmanager is disabled.

So any more ideas?

I suspect a big part of the problem is the networking getting broken by the LinuxMCE install (Note: networking is fine after the initial Kubuntu install and it downloads all sorts of packages during the LinuxMCE install fine).

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Installation issues / Re: black screen with cursor after avwizard

« on: February 04, 2010, 10:58:13 pm »

Hmm I decided to try the web interface or ssh and discovered that it seems to have forgotten about the network card now.
It was working since it downloaded a whole ton of stuff during install and config (even though I did DVD install).

But now and ifconfig comes up blank, not even loopback (lo) shows?

Any ideas, should I just try to reinstall?

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Installation issues / Re: black screen with cursor after avwizard

« on: February 04, 2010, 10:27:28 pm »

I'm having the same problem.
Kubuntu install seemed to work and gave me desktop. I clicked on the linuxMCE icon to kick off that part.

I had run through the AVWizard successfully.
  VGA 1024x768 75Hz
  Static Images
  Analog stereo

I tried a number of items from the other threads
dpkg --configure –a
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
  (this seemed to result in a mostly empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

I copied a backup xorg.conf that looked like it might work into place.

It chugs along after a reboot says things such as :
  Installing Firefox
  Regenerating orbiter

But then I am left with a black screen and cursor.
  No keys seem to do anything (eg. 1 2 3 4 5, mouse buttons) mouse does move though.

In the text console (ctrl-alt-F1) I see a message about Regenerating Orbiter Complete.

So any more suggestions?
What is supposed to happen after orbiter regeneration?

I'm using pretty old hardware but it worked with an older MythTV release before.
Asus a7v266-e/aa
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
1GB RAM
ASUS v7100 GeForce2 MX, 32 MB Video card
 w/composite and sVideo out
WinTV-PVR 350
CRT Monitor on the VGA port.