Can't log in after upgrading to 9.04 - weird colors/logos/black screen

[lazypeterson]

Hey, I just upgraded from 8.10 and once I installed and rebooted, Ubuntu loaded, but when it should bring up the login screen, I only see some small mashed text and small faded Ubuntu logos towards the top of the screen.

I first let it sit for a while, but it was frozen. I rebooted, no luck. Rebooted again in recovery mode and tried to fix broken packages, no luck there either. I chose the option to try and fix graphics problems, but that didn't do anything either.

I'm running a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a Nvidia graphics card.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

[lazypeterson]

I'm getting:

ata1 softreset failed (device not ready)
ata3 softreset failed (device not ready)

before the Ubuntu load screen appears

[luckyu]

same thing as well!

[abyrne]

ata means hard drive. do you have a way of checking the status of your hard drive (ex. Other OS on same HD, Ubuntu Live CD, ect.)?

[luckyu]

yes i have a live disc

[lazypeterson]

I split my hard drive with Windows, it's working fine on here.

[vargasman]

I am also having this problem after upgrading. I know my system hardware is good as I am posting from my 8.10 live cd. Any ideas what could be the issue?

[vargasman]

After reading other posts i tried this and it worked for me.

1. reboot into recovery mode netroot (root with networking)
2. enter the following code:
apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx
3. reboot and type
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri

Hope this helps.

[lazypeterson]

After reading other posts i tried this and it worked for me.

1. reboot into recovery mode netroot (root with networking)
2. enter the following code:
apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx
3. reboot and type
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri

Hope this helps.

Hooray Vargasman!!!! Thanks a million, this worked great!