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Upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 results in broken X

Asked by shomboli

I upgraded Feisty to Gutsy online tonight, and the result is that I lost my graphic interface. Typing "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in recovery mode results in :"xserver-xorg is broken or not fully installed". It worked fine in Feisty. How do I restore it in Gutsy? I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with Windows XP Professional on the primary disk and Ubuntu Linux on the module bay secondary disk.My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go(Dell Mobile).

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Maria Antonia Lacerda (liassol2004) said : 		#1

I upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 and is broken or not fully installed.
I try made upgrade to "hpijs;hplip;hplip-data;libmysqlclient15off;mysql-common and tk8.4 and result error

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shomboli (timmy36) said : 		#2

Trying X-configure results in "API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has the version 1.0-9631, but this X module has the version 1.0-9639. Please make sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version."

Well, I'm baffled! It worked before the Gutsy upgrade, but I don't know how to fix it now.

Also, my menu.lst now has entries for kernel 2.6.22-14, but if I select them at boot-up, I get a kernel panic. I can still boot into text mode using the old kernels' recovery mode, and when I check the /boot and /boot/grub directories I notice that there is no /boot/initrd.img line in grub for the 2.6.22-14 entries, and no initrd.img in /boot either, but there is a config-2.6.22-14 instead.

I'm still baffled.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Try to start in standard mode ignore error and go to into a terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 or CTRL+ALT+F3 ...
make a login
then try
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ( to be sure there are no some else desktop install errors )
go to your /etc/X11 dir
cd /etc/X11
make a copy of actual xorg.conf
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.old
then try to reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
then reboot
sudo reboot

HTH

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shomboli (timmy36) said : 		#4

Cool! The "sudo apt-get update" did it for me: both X and the new kernel work for me now! Thanks for the magic!