10.04 rc update problems

[Goh Lip]

On 04/27/2010 01:09 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:35, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com
> <mailto:g.lip at gmx.com>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>      > <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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
>
>
>      sorry, but I don 't understand!

Before booting, there is the grub menu to select 10.04 or 9.10 to boot 
up. (unless somehow you have lost this and you will need to press 
'shift' when you start up your computer to make this appear)

At the 10.04 line, the first entry, press 'e' to edit and at the linux 
line, which looks something like this...

linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic 
root=UUID=c4aea9ce-65c8-415d-ac28-da51478e8053 ro vga=769  quiet splash

place your cursor at the end of the line (press 'end') and remove 
'splash' and 'quiet' (press backspace)
Then press 'ctl' + 'x' to boot.

If booted okay and fine, come back here again and we'll try to sort out 
what happened and what next to do.

Regards - Goh Lip


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