| Eric Johnson on 3 Sep 2012 12:36:03 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Broken Ubuntu upgrade |
No difference. I turned off quiet and splash, but it gets to exactly the same message and then freezes. I do not see how to get to the X log file unless I boot from recovery mode. Thanks, Eric "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On my system X starts up shortly before ACPI which is where I'd expect the >battery check to take place. If you try to boot into single user mode does >that work? I'd surmise that something in X is broken. >Check your X log file (if it's written to prior to crash.) > >Eric > >On 09/03/2012 01:14 PM, Eric H. Johnson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just upgraded one of my notebooks to Ubuntu 12.04. The upgrade went fine, however I hate unity, so I then proceeded to uninstall unity and install GDM. That appears to have been a mistake, as it now hangs on booting. In normal boot, it dumps boot logging text up to "checking battery" and just freezes. It has loaded a bunch of services by that point, including postgresql and things of that sort. >> >> If I boot in recovery mode, I do not get to the menu, it does boot to a command prompt however. I did a check on packages and it says there are no broken packages. I tried running the dist-upgrade again and it said there is nothing to upgrade, and I tried re-installing unity, which worked as far as installing, but no real difference as far as booting. >> >> The file system is otherwise intact, so I can get at what little data I would want to save, and rebuilding is no great loss. It would mainly be the time it took to set up all of the applications, as a couple were a bit of a pain to get working. >> >> I also burned a 12.04 CD and booted to it, but saw no additional recovery options. Is there anything else I can do at this point to recover the system, or am I better off just starting over. >> >> Thanks, Eric >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> > >- -- ># Eric Lucas ># ># "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth ># And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... ># -- John Gillespie Magee Jr >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > >iEYEARECAAYFAlBE+REACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/48JQCggypPFvf8AqscrQvmbvZVQjG6 >y4gAmwcoi4aWzEaTFgKo60XBJCb/d39Y >=1RV3 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >___________________________________________________________________________ >Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug