doofusoftheday
April 19th, 2009, 02:34 PM
Have been using Jaunty for months now. No problems. I update applications every couple of weeks I guess. Logged on last night and went into update manager and there was a lot of updates available. I started the update and walked away. A little while later went into office to check on the update and there was a black screen, and my daughter said "I think I broke the computer." I am not sure what she did, she couldn't explain.
Anyhoo, I reboot and get to graphical login screen (I love that pretty 3D ubuntu graphic at the lower right of login screen!) and can enter my ID. Then it asks for password, I enter it, but the screen for password just stays there and computer does nothing. Still stuck on that screen an hour later.
I am guessing the update didn't complete or it did complete and broke something. How do I boot to a command line and re-run update like "sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade" or something like that to fix this?
Anyhoo, I reboot and get to graphical login screen (I love that pretty 3D ubuntu graphic at the lower right of login screen!) and can enter my ID. Then it asks for password, I enter it, but the screen for password just stays there and computer does nothing. Still stuck on that screen an hour later.
I am guessing the update didn't complete or it did complete and broke something. How do I boot to a command line and re-run update like "sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade" or something like that to fix this?