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Why won't it just boot into normal ubuntu

Asked by onyxolivia

Ok, I'm a complete noob, but when I first installed ubuntu, everything was working great. Then, I had to restart my computer so I did, but now, instead of booting normal ubuntu like it had before with the background and everything, it just goes into the black screen with the white text and asks for my login and password. After I type that in, it just sits there waiting for me to type a command in. Can anyone please help me get it to just boot normally again and not this wierd thing?

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Steven Danna (ssd7) said : 		#1

Are there any error messages that you receive? These may be printed above the place for you to type in your username and password.

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onyxolivia (onyxolivia) said : 		#2

Here is everything it says

boot from (hd0,0) ext3 0dd0d6f7-1045-411c-ad73-c74048b99791
Starting up ...
Loading, please wait...
19+0 records in
19+0 records out
kinit: name_to_dev_t(dev/disk/by-uuid/164993e0-3029-4ce5-a897-9b4c55aacd6e) = dev(8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/164993e0-3029-4ce5-a897-9b4c55aacd6e
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...

Ubuntu 9,04 (the name of my computer) tty1

(the name of my computer) login:

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

for gnome:
  sudo apt-get --reinstall install gdm

for kde:
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

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onyxolivia (onyxolivia) said : 		#4

sorry, new problem, it won't let me type in my password, it wil let me type in my login, but not my password anymore

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

The password does not display anything when you press keys on the keyboard. This prevents people seeing *s like in windows and hides the length of the password. Just type as normal and it will work.

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onyxolivia (onyxolivia) said : 		#6

what does your first post mean, do I type that in?

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onyxolivia (onyxolivia) said : 		#7

ok, when I typed in the first one, it installed something, but it won't let me type in the second one, it says kdm is not there or something. and i also noticed, it only does this after I enable the proprietary video drivers, before, i could restart and it would be fine

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onyxolivia (onyxolivia) said : 		#8

by the way, installing the first one didn't help, it still does it

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onyxolivia (onyxolivia) said : 		#9

actually could you please just tell how to uninstall ubuntu

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#10

to uninstall simply format the partitions, if you dual boot then you will need to reinstall the XP boot loader.

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