hey thnx for the mail yes it all went fine and i restarted but then once i log in it just plays the start up music and returns back to the log in screen again and this is wat happens even after trying many times is this something serious, how cud i possibly get into the desktop regards donny <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Carl Friis-Hansen <<a href="mailto:ubuntuuser@carl-fh.com">ubuntuuser@carl-fh.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Donny George wrote: > hey steve > > i did the command and the screen went on scrolling with so many packages > or something. and now its kind of stuck like and says Reloading system > log daemon and once i press enter i just get the prompt. > > is this some kind of error > > ?? > > donny Sounds like all went well, so: sudo shutdown -r now should get you restarted. -- +---------------------------------+-------------------+ | Carl Friis-Hansen | Fiskeryd Nybygget | | <a href="http://computingconfidence.com/" target="_blank">http://computingconfidence.com/</a> | 341 91 Ljungby | | Phone: +46 (0)372 15033 | Sveden | +---------------------------------+-------------------+ -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>