Spooky behaviour with Ubuntu 24.04.x

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ian Bruntlett wrote:

>I've been experiencing failures with Ubuntu 24.04.2.
[SNIP]
>After the update, the system would boot but would more or less
>immediately freeze after login. I ran memtest86+ and it confirmed
>that the RAM is OK.

I've experienced random freezes after login with Ubuntu 24.04 in a
virtual machine. It's all the more frustrating because it's
intermittent, which suggests a timing issue somewhere in the boot
sequence. I don't have a solution for you, but here's a Grub2
boot-option as a workaround that gets me in reliably every time
without fail and should get you in, too. It would have to be done
each time you boot and is only a temporary solution that's usually
used when a system won't boot without a proprietary driver.

You'd still need to do some research to find a permanent solution.
This is a really common issue, so a search for "Ubuntu 24.04 won't
boot" will turn up more pages than you could probably ever read. I'm
not bothering and will stick with the temporary solution, because I
only use Ubuntu 24.04 as an occasional test-bed for checking if our
project runs in it.

Here are the steps that work for me:

1. Start booting your computer.
2. If the Grub menu doesn't usually show up for you after your BIOS
or UEFI splash screen, then hold the Shift key after the BIOS or UEFI
splash screen is displayed to get the Grub menu to come up.
Otherwise, just boot until you see the Grub menu.
3. Press the e key while the kernel you would like to boot into is
highlighted (use the arrow keys to select a different one than the
one that is highlighted by default, if desired).
4. Find the line that contains this: quiet splash
5. Add a space after splash and then add your boot option, like this:
foo bar baz quiet splash nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0

-- 
Little Girl

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