Hello,
I'm having problems with my desktop computer; it's a 64-bit AMD machine with Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade yesterday and it produced some errors, but I (foolishly) didn't look into them. This morning it has refused to boot into a graphical shell; it shows the 'Ubuntu' load screen after GRUB, with the five dots progressing to the right, but then immediately drops to a command prompt.
Suspecting it has lost the graphics driver somehow I ran:
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*
... and was given this as an error message:
Code:
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11.1) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ondemand: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initscripts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ogp@desktop:~$
From memory, this looks like the error that I was given yesterday when I updated the machine, so I suspect it is relevant. I have subsequently tried to re-install nvidia, using:
# sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
... and had this set of error messages again:
Code:
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11.1) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ondemand: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of resolvconf:
resolvconf depends on initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.10); however:
Package initscripts is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing resolvconf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
initscripts
resolvconf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
To my eyes (and I am no more than a beginner!) this looks like it is failing to run initiscripts as it isn't configured, and it is looking for a file (/etc/init.d/ondemand) which doesn't exist. This file is to do with the clock speed of the CPU, which I know I changed many months ago but has worked fine since then.
Is all this relevant to the fact that my machine won't now run a graphical shell? If not, what can I do to get that graphical shell back?
Thanks, in advance, for any help.
Oli.
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