Dell Inspiron 1525 Auto Reboots

[Hardcoretexan]

I really appreciate all the help but I really don't want to have to go through reinstalling everything again.
the problems with setting up my email to pop and my wifi card that didn't want to  work. Unless I start having severe problems I'll just deal with the rebooting issues.
LL runs fine once its up and maybe an update might clear it up eventually.

Thanks again.

GC

[avj]

Should probably make sure the iso download wasn't corrupted like I pointed out in an earlier post.

[gold_finger]

Alright -- I'm officially stumped!

I don't see anything about your computer specs (from inxi output) that stands out as problematic.  There really shouldn't be any problem on that system from what I can tell.

Best guess at this point is maybe the installation just didn't go properly for whatever reason.  If you don't mind, try doing a fresh installation again and maybe that will clear up the mystery behavior.  Don't remember exact wording of install choices, but just pick the one that says it will use the whole disk and wipe out whatever is on there now.  Maybe we'll get lucky and everything will work the way it should when new install is done.

[Hardcoretexan]

Ok, I opened up leapfrog like you said, I pasted the below txt and clicked save and restarted. LL booted then rebooted and brought me to the advanced screen just like before.

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Section "Device"
        Identifier "My device"
        Driver "intel"
EndSection

I then resumed booting and it is running like before.

[gold_finger]

gksu leafpad /etc/X11/xorg.conf

When I do this leafpad opens but it opens (xorg.conf) and the page is blank.

That's correct.  The command will create an xorg.conf file located at /etc/X11 in the file system.  I (and others who've used Linux for a while) automatically refer to files by their full path names.  That is something that confused me too when I first started out in Linux a while back.  Nowadays I forget that little things like that aren't clear to people newer to using Linux.  In this case, that command creates the file in the same way as if you had opened the file manager and went to File System (/) -> /etc (folder) -> /X11 (folder) and then created a text file called xorg.conf in that location.

[avj]

That is exactly what it is supposed to do. Follow the rest of the instructions gold_finger posted.

[Hardcoretexan]

Let's try creating that file again.  Boot into LL and open a terminal.  Then enter this command:
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gksu leafpad /etc/X11/xorg.conf

When I do this leafpad opens but it opens (xorg.conf) and the page is blank.

[gold_finger]

I deleted the post you made immediately before the above one with green box around it because it looks like you mistakenly posted a duplicate.

Also, not sure if you meant to use the green check arrow on that post marking as "best answer" or not because this post is not solved by that answer.  Couldn't figure out how to remove the green check to unmark it as best answer.  Maybe only you can do that?  Or maybe it can't be removed once checked?  I don't know, but am going to ignore that and continue trying to solve the problem.

I only have linux operating system on this computer, there is a partition with the original Dell/Windows operating info on it

That original Dell/Windows partition is no longer on the drive.  As shown in your parted -l output, only Linux partitions are currently there.  If Dell partition were on the drive, parted would show it (even if it were a "hidden" partition).



The output from cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf command shows that the file never got created from my prior instructions to force recognition of the Intel video driver.  (You may have forgotten to save the file when you followed those instructions last time.)

Let's try creating that file again.  Boot into LL and open a terminal.  Then enter this command:

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gksu leafpad /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Enter your password when asked for it, then your text editor (leafpad) will open up with a blank file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Copy/Paste the following lines (including the indented formatting) as shown into the leafpad editor that opened up.

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Section "Device"
        Identifier "My device"
        Driver "intel"
EndSection
In the text editor, go to File -> Save to save the file.  (The Leafpad command above already named the file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", so just pick File -> Save, not File -> Save As.)

Close the text editor.

Close the terminal window.

Reboot computer and see what happens.

[Hardcoretexan]

Nope went back to looping restart.
I then turned it off restarted/ advanced options/recovery mode then restart and it booted up fine

[avj]

You might want to try to boot normally, reboot and when you get to the "advanced options screen" hit [Enter] and see if it will boot without going through the advanced options.

[Hardcoretexan]

Here are actual pics.
http://imgur.com/a/eS9Pr?gallery

Sorry about the quality and the pictures.
1. is advanced options screen I select second option.
2. second option recovery mode
3. select grub (update grub boot loader)
4. remount file system - Y
5. finished -Y
6. exit - y

and while its scrolling through the updates I notice at least one failed http://i.imgur.com/4ohkPQC.jpg

After all this happens linux runs fine until I reboot then repeat everything.

[Hardcoretexan]

It never rebooted randomly, once I was in it was fine but everytime I rebooted I would have trouble.
Before when I restarted and the intro screen (telling you to to do updates etc...) the computer would reboot again and again(loop) to which I would have to turn off power interrupting that cycle and then the next time I restarted it would go to the advanced options screen.

Now it doesn't loop when I restart it goes strait to advanced options but I still have to update the grub boot loader as before.
I only have linux operating system on this computer, there is a partition with the original Dell/Windows operating info on it

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Are you saying that it no longer reboots randomly like before?  (That's what you wanted, right?)  What do you mean by it taking you to "the advanced options"?  Can you describe that in more detail?  (What are the options you're seeing?)

When I restart after a failed attempt I get a screen similar to this http://www.hecticgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/GRUB-menu-of-Linux-Lite-2.2.png but with an options to boot normally and no option to boot into any
other operating system. Clicking on advanced options takes me to recovery mode and then several options (one being update grub boot loader(which I take)) and after that my linux starts up and runs fine until I reboot again and I have to do the same thing over again.

batman@BatComputer:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
batman@BatComputer:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
batman@BatComputer:~$


batman@BatComputer:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for batman:
Model: ATA ST9320320AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End    Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  316GB  316GB   primary   ext4            boot
 2      316GB   320GB  4283MB  extended
 5      316GB   320GB  4283MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)


batman@BatComputer:~$

batman@BatComputer:~$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done
batman@BatComputer:~$

[gold_finger]

Ok Did that and now it reboots but only one time then it automatically takes me to the advanced options instead of looping shutting down and rebooting.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Are you saying that it no longer reboots randomly like before?  (That's what you wanted, right?)  What do you mean by it taking you to "the advanced options"?  Can you describe that in more detail?  (What are the options you're seeing?)

I still have to update the grub boot loader to start Linux.

Not sure why that's necessary, but you can do that with this terminal command:

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sudo update-grub

batman@BatComputer:~$ inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) bus-ID: 00:02.0
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: fbdev,vesa,intel Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
batman@BatComputer:~$

It still doesn't look like the Intel driver is being used.

Can you boot into LL again and post back with the output from the following commands please:

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cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and

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sudo parted -l(Note:  command ends in a lowercase letter "L", not a number 1.)

Also, can you tell us if Linux Lite is the only operating system on computer; or are you dual-booting with Windows or another OS?

[Hardcoretexan]

Ok Did that and now it reboots but only one time then it automatically takes me to the advanced options instead of looping shutting down and rebooting.
I still have to update the grub boot loader to start Linux.
I did the updates and here is the results you asked for.


batman@BatComputer:~$ inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) bus-ID: 00:02.0
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: fbdev,vesa,intel Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
batman@BatComputer:~$

[gold_finger]

batman@BatComputer:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: BatComputer Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.11.8 (Gtk 2.24.23) Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine:   System: Dell product: Inspiron 1525
           Mobo: Dell model: 0U990C Bios: Dell version: A16 date: 10/16/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T5800 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 7979.86
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2000.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) bus-ID: 00:02.0
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: fbdev,vesa,intel Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes

I'm not sure what is causing the reboot problem, but it appears that the system is not loading the correct graphics driver for your Intel card.  Let's see if we can force it to load correct driver and see if that solves problem.

Boot into system however you can, then open a terminal.  Enter the following command:

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gksu leafpad /etc/X11/xorg.conf(NOTE:  the "X11" part is an "X" and two number 1's, not lowercase letter L's.)

Enter your password when asked for it, then your text editor (leafpad) will open up the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  I'm assuming that the file did not already exist, so you will probably see nothing but a blank page when it's opened.  That's fine.  Just add the following lines (including the indented formatting) as shown into the leafpad editor for that file.

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Section "Device"
        Identifier "My device"
        Driver "intel"
EndSection
Now save the file (File -> Save) and close the text editor.  Close the terminal and all other open programs (if any), then reboot the computer.

If we're lucky, that might have been the problem.  Confirm after reboot that the Intel driver now shows for the graphics card by entering this command in a terminal:

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inxi -Gx