Boot failure after an update

If you run:

sudo lshw -C display

Do you see 2 GPUS (Nvidia and Intel). Or does the system have a make and model?

Thanks

HI

Running the instructed command resulted in the following message:

Description: VGA compatible controller

Product: GF 108M [ Geforce GT 540M ]

Vendor: Nvidia Corporation

Physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

Version: a1

Width: 64 bits

Clock: 33 MHZ

Capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

Configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0

Resources: irq:16 memory:dc000000-dcffffff memory:cooooooo-cfffffff memory:
d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:dd0000000-dd0ffff

End of Result.

I hope you can help me to get out of this problem please.

Regards,
Ibrahim Hammad

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:21 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #239579 on Ubuntu changed:
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>
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> actionparsnip requested more information:
> If you run:
>
> sudo lshw -C display
>
> Do you see 2 GPUS (Nvidia and Intel). Or does the system have a make and
> model?
>
> Thanks
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run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove `dpkg -l | grep nvidia | grep -v nvidia-current | awk {'print $2'}`

Then reboot

Thank you. I ran the exact command but it did not work. I had the following
message:

E: Unable to locate package dpkg-l | grep -v nvidia-current | awk {print}
E: Regex compilation error - unmatched \{\}
E: Couldn't find any package by grex 'dpkg-l | grep -v nvidia-current | awk
{print}'

Please help me out of this.

Ibrahim Hammad

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:01 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #239579 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> run:
>
> sudo apt-get --purge remove `dpkg -l | grep nvidia | grep -v nvidia-
> current | awk {'print $2'}`
>
> Then reboot
>
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Look at the command you ran and then look at mine. Not hard to see why it didn't work

Thank for your professionalism....and sorry for the inconvenience caused by
me.

I do really appreciate much your professional experience!

I ran carefully your instructed command again, and after a long time of
processing I got at the end the following message:

E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/plaxx-random-files-precise.list

E: The list of source could not be read

I rebooted ....and got the same old screen again, but in a low resolution
with huge icons.

I ran the system update and it fails with the following message (could not
determine the package or source package name).

It advice me to send a problem report maybe two or three times but no
report could be generated with a message (The jokey-text has closed
unexpectedly) and with the message (Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in
source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plaxx-random-files-precise.list) as
well.

Please advise to help me out of the completely.

Regards,
Ibrahim Hammad

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:21 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #239579 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/239579
>
> Status: Open => Answered
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> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Look at the command you ran and then look at mine. Not hard to see why
> it didn't work
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Run:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plaxx-random-files-precise.list
sudo apt-get update

Should clear that up.

Thank you. I did exactly the commands.

When running the first command nothing happened.
When running the second command I got the following message:

E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/plaxx-random-fixes-precise.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Also the resolution is still very low.

Your professional help is still appreciated please.

Regards,
Ibrahim Hammad

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:56 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #239579 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/239579
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Run:
>
> sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plaxx-random-files-precise.list
> sudo apt-get update
>
> Should clear that up.
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Thank you for the real professional work. Things are fine now.