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thanks i reinstalled grum from the usb stick and now all is well
g2

Mauf,
I may have a similar problem. I've got two Ubuntu machines, 1 workstation and 1 server (both 64bit and 11.10), and an iMac (OSX-Lion). I'm trying to use my Ubuntu server as the TimeMachine...

Ok, so "rescued a broken system" and was able to get through dpkg --configure -a, apt-get update and upgrade. The system appeared to make it further than it did during the online upgrade. However,...

Update - I confirmed my boot disk and data disks are different. I thought they were,but couldn't remember.

Second, I was able to get a bootable usb created and have the 11.10 server on the stick....

Thanks. I'd like to try a Chroot later tonight. The server isn't super important. I would assume I could access the files with a bootable stick and put them on an external drive. Right?

All. Removing .Xauthority worked for me too.

Thanks for your help.

g2

I'm posting here because I can't find another thread that more closely matches my situation.
I was upgrading my server from 11.04 to 11.10. I was not doing via ssh, but with physical access.
I'm...

Ok. I tried all that was listed and I still have the problem. In another thread I mentioned that I have two accounts on this machine. The admin account is the one that gets used. I had it set up...

I also have this problem. I'm also running 64 bit. Now, I have two user accounts on my machine. The admin account doesn't work, the user account does. I'm not sure this is relevant but, in the...

Me too.
AMD Phenom II x6 1055
Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H
8G RAM - Corsair
nVidia GeForce GT 240

Everything seems to work.