Ubuntu

System boot failure

Asked by Pedro Cabral

I have ubuntu fully installed in my PC. I have used all disk for it and removed windows completly.
I have been working with ubuntu without any problems but a message came up for me to use the best of graphics board and I accepted and enabled a package installation so that I could afford of 3d graphics. After that system broke down and I can't boot it. And I don't know how to recover my files.
I would like to keep using ubuntu but I really need your help because I'm new at this and I can't use the prompt to save this situation.
I think what I need is to disable the graphics package but since the system doesn.t boot I don.t know what to do.
Sorry about my English, I hope you understand and help me solve this problem.
Thanks
Best Regards
Pedro Cabral

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SpLItz (ryad) said : 		#1

Press esc at boot up and boot in recovery mode.
then type
startx

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

A) If you can view graphics Gnome desktop

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal
and jump to step C

B) If you cannot view graphics Gnome desktop

Please press CTRL+ALT+F2 and make login with your user and password
and go on to step C

C)

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

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

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simple questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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