What's happened to my Ubuntu installation?

GeX · 25 Jun 2012 at 11:40

Hi all.

I have a laptop with Ubuntu on, recently upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10. Before the upgrade the system was rock solid stable - but ever since upgrading I've been seeing more and more issues.

It began compiz crashing when trying to use Unity 3D, so I dropped to 2D. Now it will sometimes corrupt the screen after logging in - system locks.

Now it has begun to get picky about booting, and locks for a long period of time. If I leave it then I'll get this message;

What is likely to be going on here? I'm tempted to wipe it and start again - wonder if the upgrade has made a mess of things.

GeX · 25 Jun 2012 at 12:21

The laptop is quite old, but the SSD in there is ~6months old. The error didn't really make sense, as it must've found (and booted from) the drive to get that far.. it then hit a problem.

GeX · 25 Jun 2012 at 15:15

It has an OCZ Vertex (Agility) drive in there iirc.

I'll give that a go when I'm home. Weird that it has suddenly started doing this though.

Thanks

GeX · 25 Jun 2012 at 15:30

It does boot every third(ish) attempt though; and it ran a check of the disk on one of those boots.

GeX · 25 Jun 2012 at 22:43

Well I intended to wipe it and install Mint, got the installer USB key ready and then found it wouldn't even try and boot from it.

Process of elimination led me to the DVD drive, with that remove it'd see the USB ports - but with it installed, it wouldn't. I wonder if that is causing the other issues. To test I've pulled the DVD drive and am going to use the laptop as is for a couple of days. Seems better already.