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dave@dell:~$

Asked by Paige Franklin

Inspiron 1420 (Dell) came with 7.04 but downloaded 7.10 and cannot fully reboot now. I get dave@dell:~$ instead as prompt.

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exactt (giesbert) said : 		#1

did you an upgrade or a new install?

give the output of the command dmesg please.

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Paige Franklin (paigefranklin) said : 		#2

upgrade

I looked for the command dmesg, but no dice.

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

Please press CTRL+ALT+F3 login with your user and password, if you can, then type:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --reinstall install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get --reinstall install gdm
sudo apt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg
cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.old
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo reboot

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this help

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