unclean shutdown causes lucid stop booting

[Alan Pope]

On 9 February 2011 12:02, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried recovery mode?
> Yes but I do not know in recovery mode what to do.
>> What happens in recovery mode?
>
> I am able to get root shell and but gnome does not start.
> daemon.log shows following
>

Ok, so you can get into a recovery console.

It would be helpful to see the output of some commands. From step 4
onwards if you get any output, run the command again with "|
pastebinit" on the end and you'll get a URL showing the output, paste
those URLs here.

e.g. if you run "apt-get update" and you get some output (which you
should) then run "apt-get update | pastebinit" and note the URL.

1. Plug computer into a wired network
2. Boot to recovery mode root prompt of 10.04
3. apt-get install pastebinit
(this will allow you to paste stuff)
4. dpkg --configure -a
(to do any pending config / updates)
5. apt-get update
(to do an update)
6. apt-get dist-upgrade
7. update-grub

Output from all of those commands would be useful. Responses of "it
worked" or "it didn't work" are less useful.

Al.