Can't login into Gnome after updates yersterday (10.04
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 30 19:10:26 UTC 2010
On 09/30/2010 10:24 AM, Rob wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:15 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 09/30/2010 07:58 AM, seanh wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > I booted up my computer today and found that I cannot log into the
>> > Gnome or Failsafe Gnome desktop sessions. The computer boots fine, GDM
>> > seems to work fine, but on logging in it just shows the GDM background
>> > and nothing else, nothing happens. My desktop background doesn't
>> > appear, panels don't appear, right-clicking and left-clicking does
>> > nothing, etc. I see one notifier message that reads:
>> >
>> > "The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been
>> > installed correctly."
>>
>> Boot to recovery mode. Run the dpkg option. Continue to login to the tty
>> console & then:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>> $ sudo apt-get install -f
>> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>
>> reboot & see if that clears things up.
>
> Just out of curiousity, how does one "boot to the recovery mode"?
>
> (and then just type "dpkg" in a terminal?)
When the sytem starts to boot & you have dual OS's (ex: Ubuntu & Win)
you'll get a grub boot menu that will allow you to select the Recovery
mode. If you only have Ubuntu you may not get the menu at boot, so as
soon as it starts booting (after your bios prompts) press the ESC key &
you should then see your normal kernal and one below it with the
'Recovery' - use the arrow keys to select. That will boot into recovery
mode & you'll get a DOS type menu list. Again, use the arrow key and
select the DPKG.
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