I am attempting to install Ubuntu 24.04 onto a new desktop PC. The installation is very strange.
What appears to be happening is that the systemd is hanging the system after starting one of its services. Basically, I am seeing it stop after the following line:
starting systemd_rfkill.service - Load/Save RF Kill switch status
[OK] started systemd_rfkill.service - Load/Save RF Kill switch status
and then the system freezes. The installation system doesn't come up, and in fact the only thing I can do is shut off or restart the computer.
Has anyone else seen this problem? If so, do you have a way to fix it???
Editing to answer oldfred's questions:
The CPU is one of the latest Ryzen 7. The CPU Board has 64G memory. The main disk is a 4Tb SSD The screen is powered by a Nvidia board
One thing of interest: After posting this problem, I successfully installed Ubuntu V22.04 server onto the system. I then upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04. Unfortunately, after the upgrade the system rebooted -- then it froze after the same systemd line.
I believe I found the problem.
It was the Nvidia graphics card. I was using a Nvidia GTX 1060 with 16 Gb card in my computer. I swapped it with a Nvidia GTX 1070 with 12 Gb card that I had been using with another machine.
Now my machine does not hang on anything. I am currently installing Ubuntu V24.04 without problems.
There should be some investigation as to why one Nvidia graphics card works with V24.04 while another one hangs upon booting. Unfortunately, I do not have the machines nor the device driver expertise to do this.
But I do know that the GTX 1060 somehow causes hanging upon booting Ubuntu V24.04. Hopefully, someone will investigate this so that whatever bug is in the Nvidia driver can be fixed.