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Ubuntu won't start

Asked by helotbc

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 in VMWare Player. 3 days ago I installed 3 security packages from the Update Manager. After that, the Shutdown command from the GUI did nothing when I clicked it. I ended up doing a "sudo shutdown -hP now" to power off. On next boot, I start in VMWare, get the purple Ubuntu screen with the dots, then vertical lines as if the video driver is loading, then I get a brief glimse of text, then the cycle repeats. I am able to boot from the iso into a command shell, but I'm not sure how to start trouble shooting. Any thoughts?

The only other thing I installed the same day was MySQL Workbench 5.2.37.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Disable 3D accelleration if you have enabled it and use Unity2D, is it ok?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

sudo shutdown -h now

Will also shutdown, the -P option isn't needed.

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helotbc (helotbc) said : 		#3

3D accelleration was disabled. I enabled it and no change. I tried several manual display settings in vmware and no change. I think reinstalling vmware tools might be part of the solution, but when I boot to recovery mode, the file system is read-only. Also, I have changed the boot device to cdrom in bios and have set the Ubuntu iso as the cdrom device and it doesn't boot from the cd.

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helotbc (helotbc) said : 		#4

Also, I can't reliably get the grub menu at boot time. Is there a key combo to make that happen?

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helotbc (helotbc) said : 		#5

In recovery mode, I'm attempting to reinstall the vmware tools. I run:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

and I'm told that "special device /dev/cdrom does not exist. When I go to /dev, /cdrom does not exist.

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