10.04 rc update problems

[Goh Lip]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:07:57 -0400
Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a dual-boot machine with two installed systems, both ubuntu.
> One is 10.04 RC 64 bits (the one I am using now), which have none
> problems. On the other partition (my main use partition), I have
> ubuntu 32 bit system. On that partition I had 9.10 installed, and
> upgraded, using the usual process, to the RC. The process went mostly
> smooth (I had to start it 3 times, first restart because of internet
> connection problems, second restart because of some truoble with some
> openoffice package, which I solved by using synaptic to deinstall
> openoffice). then everything went smooth until the update manger
> said : almost finished, need to restart to finish. Restarted, but now
> in grub the new system did not appear, appeared images for 9.10 in
> its place. trying to start this, as expected did not work. the I run
> sudo grub-update, now the new system appeared, but started only in
> text mode, not with gnome!
> 
> ¿What to do?
> 
> kjetil

At text mode, can you log in? (it will prompt for password), 
update and upgrade (at text mode)
Then type 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm'.
Then 'startx' or 'sudo gdm start'.
Hopefully you will be at graphics mode.

Good luck - Goh Lip



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