Question #77276 on Ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77276
Tom proposed the following answer: Hi Going back to Recovery Mode from the the list of options for trying to boot into Ubuntu. You should get a lot of lines rushing by too fast to read, so that was ok up to there :) Hopefully this will get you to a disturbingly blue screen with a menu. Choose "fix x-server", as well as the options you tried before (such as in your original question where you said you'd tried "fix broken packages"). The "fix x-server" is the menu item that attempts to repair graphical problems. Recovery mode also allows you to "Drop to a Root Shell", of course, which it sounds like you've been using already to enter commands. I think typing something like apt-get -h | more or even just apt-get -h might give some help on how to use apt-get to help fix this. Note the | key is either somewhere up around the enter key on laptops or american keyboards but is between the "z" and the "shift" key on uk keyboards. On the keyboard it usually has a little gap in the middle of the line. Anyway, i think the command that might help fix this is apt-get dist-upgrade I'm not convinced that editing grub will really help, i think that's going off on a tangent but i'm not sure. I guess it would be nice to know if you have an Ubuntu Cd there, either 8.04 or any other might have a few tricks we could use here. Even the Cd of a completely different linux distro might be useful as a LiveCd to help with communications with this site ;) Please let us know if you do have an Ubuntu or other disro's cd and which version you think it might be ;) Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
