[ale] Ubuntu upgrade

[Brian Pitts]

On 07/04/2010 11:34 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
>
> Does it say anything above the root prompt?  I rather suspect that
> something is erroring and aborting the boot. If it's giving you a root
> prompt with no login, that means it's dropping you into single-user
> mode, which is triggered either by an error during the boot or by the
> line "single" being appended to the kernel arguments.
>
> You don't really want startx anywhere -- init loads the services
> requested by the current run environment, and one of those (for
> Gnome-based "vanilla" Ubuntu) is gdm.  GDM will load X and provide you
> with the login screen you're used to.
>
> Menu.lst is not a shell script, so putting startx there will likely only
> make things worse -- and certainly won't get X going for you.

I agree with the above. Your upgrade may not have completed successfully.

Make sure your computer is plugged into a wired network and turned off. 
Turn it on and hold down shift; this should bring up the GRUB2 menu. 
Select the entry labeled "recovery mode". If you're not in too bad a 
shape, this should eventually load a menu with different automated 
recovery options you can choose. One of them is labeled something like 
"repair broken packages". Choose it and see what happens.

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts