Shawn, Thanks for all your help. I'll try what you suggest and get back to you later with the results.
Robin On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > So, you know that the graphical manager that Unity was the culprit (the > equivalent of kdm or gdm). So if you do a dpkg-reconfigure on THAT package > - which looks like "lightdm". > > So "sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm" should solve the original problem and > allow you to pick lightdm over gdm. Then if everything works right, you > can uninstall gnome3. If not, then dpkg-reconfigure gdm to restore > yourself to gnome3 and deal with the drive space issues later. > > At least this sounds like a plan from this end. The important thing is > that you are running again. :) > > Shawn > > > On 12-10-11 08:37 PM, Richard Carter wrote: > >> Shawn, >> >> Thanks for your help. When I tried the solutions you suggested I got >> messages saying that gdm was not found. Indeed when is looked in >> /etc/init.d/ I couldn't find gdm or kde. >> >> So after stumbling around for some time I installed gnome3 following the >> suggestion in >> http://www.filiwiese.com/**installing-gnome-on-ubuntu-12-** >> 04-precise-pangolin/<http://www.filiwiese.com/installing-gnome-on-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/> >> . >> Success! >> >> Every thing seems to work now except I get a "Low Disk Space" warning >> saying that "Filessystem root" has only 404.6MM disk space remaining" >> and suggesting I get rid of unused programs and move files to another >> disk, i.e. my 500GB HD. I'll work on that later. >> >> Thanks again for your help. >> >> Robin >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Shawn <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]**>> wrote: >> >> You are getting past the boot sequence and then encountering >> problems with the desktop environment. I've seen this sort of thing >> before. Most recently I just updated to the latest version (12.04) >> on a separate hard drive. In the past, I would delete the xorg.conf >> file (rename it really) and let the system recreate it. >> >> At the very least, you should be able to do CTRL-ALT-F1 (twice) to >> get to a command prompt. There you can do everything you need. You >> might try to simply restart the graphical environment: >> >> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart >> >> (if you are using KDE and the KDE login window, then replace "gdm" >> with "kdm") >> >> I haven't had to mess with the X-Server config for quite some time, >> so I'm not sure what Ubuntu is doing there these days. But, in the >> past I would do >> >> sudo dpkg-reconfig gdm >> >> (or "kdm" for the KDE users) This would often fix the graphical >> environment. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Shawn >> >> >> On 12-10-11 02:38 PM, Richard Carter wrote: >> >> Thanks for the tip. I checked the apt history but nothing >> seemed amiss. >> But I didn't really know what to look for. >> >> Robin >> >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Dafydd Crosby >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: >> >> Hmm, you might want to check your apt history to see if >> something >> got updated in the background that is causing the problem. >> >> -Dafydd >> >> >> On 10/11/2012 12:06 PM, Richard Carter wrote: >> >> This morning for the first time ubuntu 12.04 LTS >> wouldn't start. >> Here are the details. >> >> My desktop PC has 2 drives: a 500GB HD and a 256GB SSD. >> Ubuntu >> 12.04 is installed on the SSD and Debian 6.0 is >> installed on >> the HD. Up until now both worked well: Debian still >> works well. >> >> When I boot to Ubuntu the system gets to the point >> where the >> wallpaper to be used for the desktop is displayed >> together with >> a small window asking for user name and password. When >> I enter >> the password I get the message ' Failed to load session >> "cairo-dock" ' and a log out button is displayed. I >> get the >> same response when I try the other log in options >> available in >> the small window. >> >> I then started in recovery mode and tried: fsck, clean, >> dpkg(fix >> broken packages) and grub(update boot loader). 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