punsingh
June 26th, 2010, 11:15 AM
Hi,
I am a very new user to Ubuntu. I have a Samsung N150 netbook. It came with windows XP. I had installed UNR alongside it and it was working great for the past 3 months.
I wanted to learn GTK+ and followed the instructions in their tutorial. I downloaded their .tar.bz2 file and unzipped it. Then I opened the folder in the terminal and did make followed by make install. But the first program in the tutorial was still not compiling. So on this site: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-building.html I read that I should try ldconfig.
Once I did that, it was still not compiling. The Desktop was behaving funnily as no folder or directory was opening from the menu. I thought it would be ok if I restarted the computer but once I restarted, I was left with a mouse pointer on a black screen. Nothing worked except the power button on the computer.
I rebooted and tried the Recovery Mode of Ubuntu, the command line was working fine. By that I mean I could open close directories, and run aptitude. I tried to reinstall a few packages from aptitude but it did not fix my display.
Right now I am stuck with a mouse pointer on a black screen in ubuntu. If I press the printscreen button on my keyboard the pointer changes to the 'round waiting' thing for a moment and back to the pointer.
Please help. I am pretty sure there must be an easy fix to this.
I am a very new user to Ubuntu. I have a Samsung N150 netbook. It came with windows XP. I had installed UNR alongside it and it was working great for the past 3 months.
I wanted to learn GTK+ and followed the instructions in their tutorial. I downloaded their .tar.bz2 file and unzipped it. Then I opened the folder in the terminal and did make followed by make install. But the first program in the tutorial was still not compiling. So on this site: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-building.html I read that I should try ldconfig.
Once I did that, it was still not compiling. The Desktop was behaving funnily as no folder or directory was opening from the menu. I thought it would be ok if I restarted the computer but once I restarted, I was left with a mouse pointer on a black screen. Nothing worked except the power button on the computer.
I rebooted and tried the Recovery Mode of Ubuntu, the command line was working fine. By that I mean I could open close directories, and run aptitude. I tried to reinstall a few packages from aptitude but it did not fix my display.
Right now I am stuck with a mouse pointer on a black screen in ubuntu. If I press the printscreen button on my keyboard the pointer changes to the 'round waiting' thing for a moment and back to the pointer.
Please help. I am pretty sure there must be an easy fix to this.