10.04 rc update problems

[Goh Lip]

On 04/27/2010 12:16 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 22:41, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com
> <mailto:g.lip at gmx.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:07:57 -0400
>     Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
>
>     Thanks!
>
>   I did as proposed, and now under the boot process it starts the new
> violet splash screen, but then changes opinion and dumps into a text
> shell! Any other ideas?
>

Yes, at grub boot, line 'linux..........', delete 'splash' and 'quiet'


Regards - Goh Lip