Cannot start up normally in 9.04. Can only use recovery mode.

Are you still having this problem?

In recovery mode have you tried running the various options to "Clear space", "fix broken packages", "fsck check filesytem" and "fix xserver"?

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

If you get to a command-line in "recovery mode" try these commands to try clearing some extra space

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

Please let me know what graphics card you have as there is some issue about ati series 1000 cards which is hopefully quite fixable now.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I ended up switching back to 8.10. I'm not sure which graphics card I
have. How do I find that out?

thank you,
Nicole

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Tom <email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #69824 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Tom proposed the following answer:
> If you get to a command-line in "recovery mode" try these commands to
> try clearing some extra space
>
> sudo apt-get autoremove
> sudo apt-get autoclean
>
> Please let me know what graphics card you have as there is some issue about
> ati series 1000 cards which is hopefully quite fixable now.
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
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It's probably best to stick with 8.10 for a while and maybe try upgrading again in a month or so.

I have a trick for reinstalling one Ubuntu version over another that avoids losing programs, data & settings but it helps if you have a separate partition for /home, just in case.

From a command-line try entering

lspci | grep Display

or just "lspci" on it's own and then hunt through. I've just found about 'piping' certain commands through 'grep' using it as a search feature too limit the output to useful stuff ;) heheheh, it's great :) I don't know why it's case sensitive and haven't worked out how to avoid that, i guess just missing the first letter off "Display" would have found the same line. Note the "lspci" is a lower-case "LSPCI" lol. To get a normal command-line

Applications - Accessories - Terminal

of course, but i think yu already knew that.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)