After my latest maverick apt-get update & upgrade, a new kernel is installed (2.6.35-24-generic). Everything seems to be fine but if I choose it, no desktop is loaded. It ends with a console and a login request. I can't boot-up the gnome desktop unless I choose the former kernel (2.6.35-23-generic).
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI am begining on Ubuntu Server Management I would like to receive your on this doubt In order to have my Ubuntu Server up to date and with the last security patches, is it enough to do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade?
If not, please where I can find an easy guide in order to keep or mantain my server OK? Also, what are the risks when we do: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
I'm considering upgrading my old fileserver from ubuntu 8.10 to 10.4, but i've got single concern, I have a 5TB sofware raid 5, that i realy don't want to loose in the process. And since it's almost full (below 1TB free), i can't do a full backup.
Is there any problem in with this, if i do the upgrade? i have to upgrade 8.10 to 9.4 to 9.10 to 10.04?
I'm now using Ubuntu 9.04 and I think of upgrading it to version 10.04 (when it shall be "stable").I'd like to know if I am supposed to modify /etc/apt/sources.list with the name of the new version even though I upgrade by "update-manager-core" with the command sudo do-release-upgrade
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just updated my deskop, an IBM Intellistation M Pro with Ubuntu 10.10. After following all of the instructions and restarting the computer it comes up in terminal mode.
How can I get it to go to the desktop.
Version 10.04 worked great and the update on my laptop, which I am using now is good.
Well this morning I was notified that an update was available for a number of packages which I allowed to run. After the update I rebooted my machine and now when I log in it plays my log in sound but I don't get my desktop and I have no idea where to start looking. I am running 10.10. I don't think it is a driver issue as I am able to get a desktop if I log in as a low graphics modeUPDATE:I was able to get into the system and ran the following command:sudo apt-get -f installand I received the following error message:
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 4790 package 'python-ubuntuone-client':
field name `Prov' must be followed by colon
[code]....
I have upgraded xubuntu to 9.04 and now when I login I just get a terminal window that I can't type anything into, rather than desktop loading. The resolution is also gone quite low.
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter upgrading from 9.1 to 10.04 the desktop icons all disappeared --Also right clicking on the desktop doesn't produce anything --no menu items and no other activity. There was a similar post back in May but no solution that I was able to find.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had nothing but Ubuntu 10.10 running for a long time. Just a few hours ago I decided to switch to the beta version of 11.04. The upgrade went fine and I was asked to restart my computer. I did so and was presented with the screen that says "Ubuntu" and 5 red dots. Nothing else will display and around 2 hours has past and Im still stuck on that screen
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to know if I can upgrade to 11.04 but I dont want the untiy desktop. I want to keep the Gnome desktop.
I have used a netbook for 6 months, 10.10, with the unity desktop and i feel it is crap.
How do I upgrade my 10.10 and keep my Gnome desktop?
Also is it possible to change my netbook from unity to Gnome?
Curious thing happening since upgrade. The desktop toolbar is invisible, although I can get click and access the drop down menus for login, calander, power settings etc. Alt-tab works in 2D. The new desktop icons for natty are also invisible. I have tied to access a terminal using Alt-F2, but terminal window doesnt open. I had compiz running on previous 10.10 installation. I am at a loss as to where to begin fixing this. If I didn't have a windows 7 installation partition that would get screwed up I would flatten the installation and download and install a fresh install, but I do and I don't want to go through that pain if I don't have to.
Running Lenovo 3000 C200 with intel gm1345 gfx.
I tried to upgrade to 11.04 from 10.10 but my system got hanged in the middle of installation and then i couldn't reboot into it. So I tried upgrading using bootable ubuntu 11.04 pendrive.After the upgrade when i tried to boot into 11.04, the display went very dim (almost invisible). It happens just after I select ubuntu from grub menu. I tried booting into recovery mode, tty mode but nothing was visible.Although everything works. I was able to open terminal using Ctrl+Alt+T which was slighly visible and shut down using halt command though I couldn't see it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently began using Ubuntu 11.04, having a dual boot setup alongside Windows 7. Everything worked perfectly fine until the last update of Ubuntu occurred. After the update I rebooted my system (as you do) to "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-10-generic." When I do this it does one of two things: a) the Terminal loads and the cursor sits there blinking boringly achieving nothing and doing nothing the OS does not get very far into loading. Or b) A number of checks run automatically then pause and it goes nowhere and I'm left with a screen full of System checks. So, what I do is I load a previous version of Ubuntu "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic" and this loads no trouble.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe upgrade button in update manager does not appear. I already installed necessary updates and changed the settings to show normal releases.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am trying to up date and up grade my ubuntu10.04 and every time i had the same error and i attached pic for it
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to upgrade to 10.04 (from 9.10) I receive the following message:
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: The package 'ubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.
I could not bear once again going through the months of torment, searching forums and tearing of hair involved in getting 9.10 to install and get everything working the way I wanted if I had to do a clean install again. Mostly because I can't remember how I got round most of the issues... code...
After upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 my screen resolution become 800x600 and in 'Monitors' I see only 2 options 800x600 and 640x480. but before upgrade I had much higher resolution in 9.04
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've upgraded to 10.04 I have had a few small problems, for one, when the desktop locks after the predetermined 10 minutes or so, upon reconnection my mouse no longer works. This is a laptop and I use a usb mouse now, which occasionally will not work unless a unplug and replug. Secondly, when the desktop locks it disconnects the network, never used to do that.
View 1 Replies View Relatedok did an regular (not version change) upgrade on friends pc and now have no desktop?
Boot loads to console and can logon to console but startx fails, checking logs it says it can't load nvidia module. As upgrade had included kernal i tried to boot to older kernel but this failed with grub error.
I tried console install of nvidia-current and nvidia-module (not sure if correct name but was nvidia kernel module) but still no joy.
I finally upgraded my P4 3ghz to a dual core and replaced the onboard Intel video with a nice new Nvidia, all fine except my trashcan icon has vanished from the desktop, its enabled in gconf-editor, Ive tried disabling it, re-booting etc, but it wont come back!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI can install 6.06 desktop, but would like to move to a 8.04 server. I know I can do an upgrade from 6.06 desktop to 8.04 desktop, but how about to server? cdrom issues and heartache associated with other means of alternate iso installs are beating me up.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOn another machine, I upgraded a 8.04 desktop to 10.04 using the update manager. The update went well, but after the reboot and login, the default desktop background is loaded, but there is no status bar to select programs, access system settings, etc. How can I fix the desktop to include the status bar so that I can use the system? I can right click on the desktop and it gives me options to create launchers, etc.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI cannot start the desktop session: After upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 (dual-boot system) via Alt+F2 as suggested on [URL]. Grub loads fine after reboot (booting Windows works, Upgrade without errors). If I boot Ubuntu (no matter which Kernel, etc.), I end up in shell (black screen + prompt, stating the new Ubuntu version) and being asked to log in. Entering my name and pw results in the shell prompt changing to my name, but nothing else. So how do I start the desktop session? Repairing packages had no effect...
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I log into the standard netbook environment (not the one called 2D) I get a blank desktop with blank (yet active) bars across the top and on the left of the screen. Mousing over the invisible icons on the left opens empty text boxes of varying sizes showing how long the name of the application is... I can open the applications by clicking blindly on that bar. The bar across the top is also active, I can open the menues by clicking in the right corner and moving the mouse until the one I want is open.
I have tried removing and reinstalling Unity as well as installing and removing fglrx. I posted originally in the following thread until I realised the OP there was describing a very different problem:
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I have been using 10.04 Desktop on my laptop. Now, I want to use 10.10 netbook. Can someone clarify me if I can upgrade from 10.04 LTS desktop to 10.10 Netbook?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am making the switch to Linux and I really love Ubuntu. My DVD player isn't working, so I'm using my flash drive. It was too small for the desktop installer, so I used the netbook. I'm installing it as I type this (having the browser thats available for browsing while installing is awesome!)
Is there a way to upgrade to move to the desktop version after I finish? Also, what's the difference between the two. Links are fine. I tried google, but my google-fu must not be too strong today.
I used Kubuntus kpackagekit to upgrade to natty. The process started well, it downloaded everything and started to install 11.04. But then all of a sudden during Installing stage I got this error message:
"Distribution upgrade process exited with code 1"
and
"Your system might be unusable".
And it sure is unusable because after reboot I can only see Kubuntu 10.10 loading screen and
"The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present".
There also are options for either skip mounting or manually mount hard disks. I don't have a clue how to manually mount... I get same message if I try to boot to safe mode. Does this mean I have to go to clean install? I really don't want to do that because last time it took a couple of months to get ubuntu to co-operate well enough with my laptop.
I'm was running 64bit maverick on an intel i3 clarkdale desktop; pretty much vanilla with the compiz spinning cube desktop displaying on my 720p HDMI telly. On 'upgrading' to natty my pc refused to display anything on the telly but can still be connected to via ssh. Assuming unity was the culprit I installed gnome and deleted unity; after plugging in a VGA monitor I finallly got an output onto a display device, then managed to configure the HDMI telly as a secondary display. Gnome is just a backdrop with no panels at all; I managed to get panels by ctrl-alt-T and typing 'gnome-panel &'; but this was only a temporary fix. If I try to run a terminal now it locks X and I can only restart via the ssh session.
Currently all I have if I boot is the gnome backdrop. The pc auto logs on (as it did under maverick) so alternate logon screens can't be accessed as pretty much all I can do is run stuff via an ssh shell on my other pc.
What I'd like to do is have my desktop how it was before natty trashed it. Preferably without unity or its very irritating scroll bar widgets.
I installed the upgrade today and it gets to the login screen fine, lets me login ans then when the desktop loads it just has "flashes", when i click the menu mar (which cant be seen properly it flashes up then disappears. was working perfect as my backup server before this. Any ideas? i can't even cet a command prompt up!
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