urgent+ubuntu 8.04 desktop+post installation trouble

[Donny George]

hello all

thanks for all the help and suggestions


as part of fixing the graphical problem in the ubuntu 8.04 server edition as
per the suggestion frmo the mailing list i logged in to the failsafe gnome
mode frmo the log in screen and installed the restrcited packages and then
rebooted and everythign was fine


but now my problem is that i installed an ubuntu 8.04 desktop edition and it
has the same graphics problem and once i log in with user id and passwd it
just returns to the log in screen. i tried the same method of failsafe gnome
with the desktop edition but it didnt work. and when i try to make some
updates with update manager it returns an error which says that it couldnt
fetch  from http://de.archive.ubuntu.com... and that couldnt resolve the
de.archive.ubuntu.com

shall i in this case go for a reintall ?

donny

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Avi Greenbury <
avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >     You guys are PROVING what I have said for the past 6 months. If you
> > have a X windows or X windows related forget Ubuntu.
>
> Not by a long way.
>
> In general, if you have a problem immediately after install that is
> likely down to some error during install, it's easier to reinstall then
> diagnose and fix the problem.
>
> I've not yet come across an insurmountable X problem, personally.
>
> But, please, let's not get into this again?
>
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