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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

11.10 reboot after upgrade failed

Asked by haydn

On Intel - nvidia HP desktop and ran the standard GUI upgrade. New software was added and obsolete was removed successfully but the reboot phase has failed . X server has failed (i think) . I can't ALT + F2 to a console but I can use sys req + b to reboot.
I'll need to look up some boot options to get some logs etc, I've forgotten how to do it.
I'm writing this from my android

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Andriopoulos Nikolaos (sirnicolas21) said : 		#1

try the safe/rescue mode @ grub (u must press 'Esc' within the first three seconds of the computer starting to boot)

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haydn (wildflower1975) said : 		#2

I've got into grub and can login as root. I just tried an old 2.x kernel and I've got an x server and desktop.
I'm guessing it's something to do with the 3.x kernel and vmware as there were some messages on the terminal with vmware can't get it's services up.

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haydn (wildflower1975) said : 		#3

maybe it's this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/858122

I'll try doing the symlinks and see if it fixes the boot problem

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haydn (wildflower1975) said : 		#4

I had to install the linux-headers for the new kernel and recompile/update the nvidia drivers

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

I've also installed the latest VMware player 4.0 (but haven't run it yet for the first time - it will ask me for the current kernel headers so it can make the correct modules)