After updating to 11.10, starting Ubuntu only leads to a terminal like screen.

Pressing Alt+F1 lead to some sort of login screen. After using my computer login, it asks for me to input something. Typing help only brings up a list of commands.

Alt+F1-F6 do the same thing

It's vitally important to back up any important data before you do a release upgrade or a new install. You should back up your data now if you haven't already done so.

Log in to the console (F1 through F6 are all tty consoles) and try the following command

uname -r

This will test us what kernel is currently running.

You can try:

sudo apt-get --fix-broken install

Then try

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Then look at the release level again:

uname -r

Chris

It says I'm running 3.0.0-12-generic-pae

It also said this before I use either comands

Here, It says this when I start attempt to start it:

Starting GNUstep distributed object mapper: start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/bin/gdomap (No such file or directory)
speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher

Still not solved

But the update and fix commands worked OK?

3.0.0-12 is the correct kernel for 11.10 Oneiric.

The errors you are seeing appear to have something to do with something written with GNUstep. There's definitely something vital missing there somewhere, or something is very badly misconfigured.

Have look and see if there is a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Note that the 'X' in X11 is a capital 'X', not a lower case 'x'.

Chris

Both commands worked correctly.

The file seems to be there.

OK, it possibly shouldn't be there :-)

We'll rename it so that it's no longer used. Do the following in a terminal

cd /etc/X11
sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.old

and now reboot the machine

sudo reboot

Chris

This didn't appear to change anything.

I'm just going to do a complete reinstall. Will that fix the problem?

There is definitely no file there called /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

It's a bit hard to know what has gone wrong with a broken upgrade sometimes. I think the best thing to do is to re-install at this stage, unless anyone else comes forward with some other suggestions, but it's not even running lightDM to get to the login screen at the moment.

If you did the on-line upgrade then you probably don't have the ISO of the LiveCD to work from. For this and other reasons I normally do not recommend the on-line release upgrades. If you have the LiveCD you can run the installer and upgrade from that if you really want to, or do a full install.

If you don't want to lose your data you can do a full install but specify the partition manually, but do NOT specify to format the installation partition. This will install over the top of the old installation, hopefully repairing whatever it was that was broken. If you have a separate /home partition then this makes things even easier as you can do a clean install for / (root) but simply tell it to re-use your old /home partition.

This has a good chance of working successfully, however it's still vitally important to back up any important data before you proceed.

Chris