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Ubuntu Wubi is not responsive after login

Asked by G Luz

Hi.
I've installed Ubuntu Wubi a week ago and yesterday I got to fully install everything into it.
After I shutdown my computer and ran it again (when I was back home) I logged in and everything I get is the purple screen with nothing on it.
No error messages, no menus, nothing.
The Ctrl+Alt+Del still offer to logout and when I press the shutdown key on my laptop, I get the shutdown menu. But that it.

I will appreciate your help,
Thanks.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#1

Is this 11.10?
Try resetting unity: after logging in hit Ctrl+Alt+T to get to a terminal, and enter:
unity --reset

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G Luz (gluz) said : 		#2

It is 11.10.
the Ctrl+Alt+T didn't work.
I used the Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then ran the command.
It ran till the line "Initializing composite options...done" but then didn't return prompt.
After a while I got and error: "Aggregation not enabled for tid..." but I'm not sure it is related.
I'm currently stuck on this and not sure how to proceed.

Thanks for the help.

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G Luz (gluz) said : 		#3

So I just pressed 10 secs on the power button and rebooted to ubuntu.
Problem solved.

Thanks a lot!

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#4

Great, glad it's fixed. But don't ever hard reset like that. If you catch it at a bad time, the root.disk (virtual disk wubi users) could be corrupted, possibly irreparably. Instead hold down Alt+SysRq and press R-E-I-S-U-B

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#.E2.80.9CREISUB.E2.80.9D_.E2.80.93_safe_reboot