Ubuntu system is down !

[chad_fiend]

hello all !

i'm a new member and glad to post first time :)

Problem Description
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1- i have been using ubuntu 8.10 for a while and i enjoyed it very much
2- recently i was curious about using KDE and installed the package and been trying this new environment.
3- but suddenly i was faced by many problems with gnome and kde applications , they seem to overlap or hit on each other.

Action Taken
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1- tried to uninstall KDE from synaptic package manager but seemed like KDE is still working and causing problems.
2- i tried to remove the packages installed with KDE manually and it caused my system to crash !
3- i have both vista and ubuntu on my laptop

Current Status
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i have looking for a way to recover my system , or reinstall ubuntu , tried the recovery console and the ubuntu installation cd but couldn't solve the problem.


Anyone can tell me how to recover my system ?


thanks in advance !

[renkinjutsu]

be careful... how did you know which process were kde processes? if you don't start a kde session, they won't start by themselves

if you were uninstalling everything that starts with a "K" then that's bad.. you were probably uninstalling kernel services instead of [K]DE stuff

[chad_fiend]

actually i checked a thread in the forums that shows the packages that are downloaded for KDE and tried to uninstall them , seems like it worked for a while but once i continued removing more packages , i couldn't get to gnome.

once i start ubuntu i'm able to access the command line but not the GUI of gnome.