Please help, I lost my GUI!

[Silent Ph03nix]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 14:20, matt.modica at comcast.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Kubuntu 6.06 Edgy on the K7 Kernel. I just recently upgraded
> to Edgy from Dapper, and for the most part, it has worked fine. But for
> some reason, I can't get into the GUI anymore. All it will do is boot into
> what looks like recovery mode and the terminal. I tried every kernel I have
> installed, and the same thing happens with all of them.
>
> I have no idea what to do. All I was doing was switching the video card
> driver with a different one, since I suspect I had the wrong one. I didn't
> stop x.org though, because I couldn't figgure out how, and I did it wothout
> doing so before. Then suddenly my GUI went away, and just went to this
> screen where there was a blinking cursor, but nothing was there, and it
> wasn't doing anything, so I shut it down by pushing the power button. I
> should have done Ctrl + Alt + F1, but I didn't think of it.
>
> It showed the shuting down screen like it usually does when I shut down.
> When I booted back up, I selected the K7 Kernel like I usually did, but
> after the normal loading screen, it went into the terminal like it does in
> recovery mode. So I rebooted, thinking I pressed recovery mode by accident.
> But I noticed that it used the progress bar durring the loading screen.
> When I booted back up, I made sure to select the normal kernel, and it did
> the same thing. I rebooted again, and tried the recovery mode, but that did
> the same thing, except that it didn't show the progress bar. I tried the
> 386 kernel, but that did the same thing.
>
> I also tried other things, including running "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start"
> but I got a message saying the K desktop manager was already running. I
> also tried Ctrl + Alt + F7, but that just broght me back to the blank
> screen with the cusror. I tried to reconfigure the XServer with "sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", but that didn't help. I think there is
> something wrong with xorg.conf, but I don't think that reconfiguring the
> XServer is fixing it, since it gives me a message saying that it overwrote
> xorg.conf. I have read in many places that reconfiguring it fixes it, but
> it doesn't.
>
> I have no idea what to do, so I am asking for help. Is this a bug in Edgy
> mabye?
>
> I would really appreciate any help on this. Thanks a lot!

If I remember correctly, this is a known issue.  From your terminal, run sudo 
aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade 
OR
sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.  

I've read that it somehow doesn't upgrade xorg on the first try.  
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