On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Sahil Arora <[email protected]> wrote: > Today I upgraded from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04. But after restarting > ubuntu is not loading. Just a terminal like screen comes up asking for > username and password.
I will tell you what/where the problem is. You can try googling/asking for help regarding it. Your upgrade was largely successful. The graphics component in GNU/Linux distro is the X.org package [http://www.x.org/wiki/]. By default, you always have these consoles which are text based but distros set things up so that gdm (or kdm), the login prompt appears when you boot into Linux. Since that is NOT happening for you, you see the shell consoles. The problem could be with either video drivers (try switching to vesa, google for how), or that gdm (or related packages) were not installed properly, or (unlikely) the settings do not setup gdm to be launched at startup (equivalent of telinit 3 though that does not happen in Ubuntu). My guess is that the problem is the first one with video drivers. Try checking for the things I have mentioned above and see what you get. Hope it throws some light at your problem. You should also try logging into teh console in shell and launching X.org (to verify if it's a problem with the driver/settings in case X doesn't run, or with boot up settings if X does work). Sharad -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
