[Nottingham] Odd Ubuntu 12.04 boot problem (Language selection)

[Martin]

Stripes,

Yep... That sounds all Greek to me too!

Is your laptop a wannabe Raspberry Pi?... ;-)


Joking aside:

> I had the following keyboards set up and working
> English (UK)
> Greek (Simple)
> German
> French

> The keyboards installed at this time were
> English (UK)
> Greek (Simple)
> Bulgarian
>
> after a reboot the keyboards had reverted to the older
>
> English (UK)
> Greek (Simple)
> German
> French


So... My guess is that the language settings need to be set again for
your boot loader... Make a backup of your system and then reinstall the
boot loader?...

Another possibility is that the language settings in the BIOS have been
altered... Or that your BIOS battery is old/flat and the BIOS has become
reset to a default state that does not correctly set the display or
keyboard settings...


Long time no see...

If you're in Nottingham, you're welcome to find the group next week to
diagnose further and fix and to add to our international/multinational
listing! ;-)

(We'll be in our usual Angel Microbrewery Pub :-) )


Anyone else with ideas?

Cheers,
Martin



On 07/02/17 10:08, stripes theotoky via Nottingham wrote:
> When I boot the laptop I get a message on the bottom of the screen which
> I guess is supposed to say it is so many times since the last drive
> check, check forced.
> 
> What it actually shows is a two rows of text mostly made up of white
> diamonds with 4 capital letters F and I and two others I can't remember,
> the Greek pi and eta and don't wish to reboot it now as it is running.
> 
> Pressing I boots the box normally. Pressing anything else generally
> leads to more error messages made up of white diamonds. I assume I am
> telling it to ignore the errors.
> 
> When I get to the log in screen text in the username and password fields
> is in Greek but it accepts English input for the password. Once booted
> the box runs normally.
> 
> I tried booting into recovery mode and running fsck but I have no idea
> what it was doing as it gave me a row of white diamonds and just seemed
> to hang.
> 
> HISTORY
> 
> I had the following keyboards set up and working
> English (UK)
> Greek (Simple)
> German
> French
> 
> I deleted the German and French layouts and replaced them with Bulgarian
> This never worked properly only giving me some characters.
> 
> Travelled by air and it seems when the staff inspected the laptop they
> must have turned it on and it travelled powered up as when I arrived the
> standby light was on but it wouldn't boot or turn off properly I had in
> the end to hold the power button down until the power light went out and
> then pull the battery before it could be started.
> 
> When it started everything came up in Greek, menus everything. I managed
> to reset it to English, rebooted and came up with the above problem.
> The keyboards installed at this time were
> English (UK)
> Greek (Simple)
> Bulgarian
> 
> after a reboot the keyboards had reverted to the older
> 
> English (UK)
> Greek (Simple)
> German
> French
> 
> Any ideas on what could have happened or how to fix it?
> 
> Stripes.
> 
> 
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> Stripes Theotoky
> 
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