Ubuntu :: 11.04 Doesn't Complete Boot Up....makes Me Use Startx

Jul 3, 2011

I must have deleted a file or done something wrong because now when I start ubuntu11.04, my startup stalls at the blackscreen where it lists the output of current operations. Mine seems to stall at checking pulseaduio or stall at checking cron. I am not totally certain of the phrases but anyway, my only way to log in is to ctrl+alt F1 and sign in that way followed by startx. I copied some exact info down and here is where my computer usually stalls:

Screen says, Starting CUPS printing spooler/server [ok]
Checking battery state... [ok]
Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ok]

This is the usual stopping stop for my computer.

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I'm having a pretty serious problem, whenever I try to boot into Ubuntu the screen goes black, I see a flash of purple or violet and then i get a prompt asking for my login credentials, afterwards I'm stuck with a terminal trying to start the gui... I don't know what I'm doing wrong, fresh install tried to reboot after getting the display driversinstalled idk if that could be a problem. I tried to commands in the terminal already:

startx
sudo service gdm start
return = start: Job is already running: gdm

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Code: Select allstartx

And I get the

Code: Select allFatal server error: no screens found

Also when I run

Code: Select allsudo iwconfig all I get is
Code: Select alllo        no wireless extensions

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Code: Select allVGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation  ValleyView SSA-CUnit (rev 0e)
Code: Select allNetwork controller: Atheros Comm. AR9485 Wireless network adapter (rev 01)

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Code:
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[code]...

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dmesg tells me
Code:
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platform microcode: firmware: requesting amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0xb00, revision 0
microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x2000032
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But the program itself reports
Code:
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[Code]....

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[Code]....

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Code:
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Done.
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
/dev/sda1: clean ......
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
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And with original system disk:
Code:
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Done.
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
/dev/sda5: clean ......
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
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I hope I'm understandably wary of just waltzing into the boot file and deleting something like this, so what exactly do I delete from the boot.ini file to complete the uninstallation?

This is what I have in the boot file:

Code:

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