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[NoOp]

On 07/02/2008 02:49 AM, Donny George wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:59 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/01/2008 10:03 PM, Donny George wrote:
>> > hello
>> >
>> > could someone yet guide me to restoring my display, i am still
>> > troubleshooting in the dark
>>
>> Sorry I missed your previous. Scrap all previous and just do these for now:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get upgrade
>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>>
>> Reboot. Boot to recovery mode and select option 4 to xfix, when
>> finished, select option 1 to continue to normal boot. Hopefully that
>> will get you back to a gdm.
>>
>>

> 
> hello noop
> 
> i tried these steps though most of the time the error saying that
> ttf.opensymbol is nto configured did come.

Try this (one at a time and in the order given):

sudo apt-get install --reinstall locales
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf.opensymbol
sudo fc-cache -fv
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop