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boot problem

Asked by anoop

i using ubuntu 8.10 ,one day the sound gone anyhow and when i checking sound configaration the system reboot and after that only system boots to comand line only i cant come back to graphical mode.

how can i reinstall ubuntu? i tried with live cd but it trying to change partition table.i tried manual partition and no cchange to partition that times error appears no root partition assaigned.

how can i reinstall ubuntu without lossing data in it?

pls help me to solve this problem

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

what does the command line say? Grub? do you get a login prompt and can you login with your username and password? if so, what error messages do you get if you run startx?

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anoop (anoop-ind28) said : 		#2

thank u nhasian startx helped me to come back to graphical mode. and i understand my mistake it was
 i run the following commands sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils and then sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils , but this may result in some other packages which depend on the sound-base and alsa-utils from being removed, such as gdm and ubuntu-desktop. that was the problem . thank u for your help.
i solved this after reading https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting