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X11 Broken

Asked by brady.obrien666

I just recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a dell workstation, and after installing a few packages and upgrading the system, I was prompted for reboot. After the reboot, I saw a few blue lines flash on the screen, and it went blank. Typed in password and username but after a few seconds, the blue lines flashed again, and the screen was a mess of flashing lines and shapes. Tried rebooting in recovery mode and the repair x11 option, but it didn't help. How can I get X11 working again.

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Derek White (d-man97) said : 		#1

Obvious solution: reinstall from scratch, apply updates, re-install. Then install your extra packages one at a time, rebooting between each until your problem surfaces (if at all).

If you want to try without re-installing, a good starting point might be hit escape when asked to enter the grub boot menu and select the previous kernel 2.6.28-11 (I believe) and see if that works. If it does, I'd try submitting a bug against the current kernel, 2.6.28-13 and see where that leads you.

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