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Ubuntu 11.10 not starting

Asked by alexander browne

I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 for months and it has been working perfectly. Yesterday I had update manager notify me of a heap of security updates. I updated these, it requested a restart and it restarted find. Then I start playing with Wine, trying to get sketchup 8 working on the machine. No luck there, it kept crashing during the extraction. Nevermind. I also completed the rest of the updates the update manager had stocked up, finished what I was working on and shutdown. I started it this morning to find that it appears to stall at the screen with the ubuntu sign and the 5 dots. The dots are all purple and it just sits there.

I can boot into recovery mode, and have a live disc. How do I get from here back to work in Unity 3d?

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Murali Krishna (husband-of-deepu) said : 		#1

once i had the same problem in 11.04. i booted the live disk and took the backup of essential data and reinstalled the OS. It happens because the data blocks gets corrupt due to sudden power off in HDD.

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alexander browne (alex-r-browne) said : 		#2

Right, I managed to get into the machine, removed by nvidia drivers, reset the xserver, and then once back in unity I added the nvidia driver version 179 and restarted.

This worked fine, and then I opened nvidia xserver and configured my two screens as they were before. Saved the config, and then restarted. This then happened:

https://picasaweb.google.com/111269132319325388201/20February2012#5711186826068941778

Has something changed in the updates over the last two days to mean that this config (that was running for months before now doesn't work?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

What video chip do you use?

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alexander browne (alex-r-browne) said : 		#4

Solved this. Purged the drivers again, reinstalled Nvidia X-Server, applied the [current] drivers to it, v. 295, a few restarts to get my twin view back again, and all it working fine.