No display after upgrade to 9.04

[Bob Cortez]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:36 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/07/2009 09:09 PM, Bob Cortez wrote:
>> I'm at wits end, I've tried everything I can think of and from what
>> I've research. This is an online upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04.  I
>> followed the directions at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading .
>>  This is my hardware - Gateway Laptop MT6728 Intel Pentium Dual CPU
>> t2330 @1.6GHz 2 GB Ram 32bit.
>>
>> The upgrade appeared to go just fine.  No warnings other than turning
>> off third party repositories. Booting up goes fine right up to where
>> the log in screen should be, and all I get is some screen flickers
>> changing from dark to light then back again.
>>
>> I'm able to use the live CD fine. I was able to install 9.04 fresh on
>> a different partition without this problem.  I've tried to reinstall
>> gdm and ubuntu-desktop and get the same problem.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> I've had that on a few systems, try this:
>
> 1. Reboot using the Recovery kernel.
> 2. Select the xfix option, let it do it's thing.
> 3. Select the dpkg option & let it do it's thing - more than likely it
> will download a few more packages & install.
> 4. Select the resume option & see if all works. If not, repeat 1-4 again
> - on one system it took me 3 times to get it all straight, but for the
> most part just one pass worked fine.
>

I forgot to add that I had done that - several times.  I also
downloaded the alternate CD and used the "repair broken" installation
option.  I was so stupid I didn't back up my most current data so it's
rather critical that I retain my data files.

I'll retry the recovery option.  How do you reboot when it goest to
the blank screen.  I don't like doing the power off option if I can
help it.

Again, thank you for your help.

Bob