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

[stripes theotoky]

I was intending to be there tonight so we could have a look at this problem
but I have a mate in trouble who needs help so I'm afraid I can't come.
Hope you all have and enjoyable evening.

Stripes.


On 7 February 2017 at 22:52, Martin via Nottingham <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> 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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> > 145.050562
> >
> >
> >
> >
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