Gahan
September 12th, 2010, 08:58 PM
I was in the middle of updating Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 when my system froze completely. All of the new packages had already been downloaded, but only a few had been installed.
I rebooted and discovered that Ubuntu simply booted into a terminal, no graphical interface at all. (The kernel has already been updated, btw)
So far I've tried the following:
-checking for broken or missing packages
-reinstalling gnome-desktop-data, ubuntu-desktop and xorg
-checking for dependency problems
-starting gnome manually (gnome-session results in an error, it can't initialize. problem persists after reinstalling)
Finally I attempted to reinstall all the packages by entering: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a
dpkg-reconfigure runs for a bit, but pretty quickly I get the following error message and it terminates:
update-intramfs: Generate /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-20-generic
cron stop/waiting
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package
Does anyone have any idea's what could be causing the GUI failure or the dpkg-reconfigure error? Halp please
I rebooted and discovered that Ubuntu simply booted into a terminal, no graphical interface at all. (The kernel has already been updated, btw)
So far I've tried the following:
-checking for broken or missing packages
-reinstalling gnome-desktop-data, ubuntu-desktop and xorg
-checking for dependency problems
-starting gnome manually (gnome-session results in an error, it can't initialize. problem persists after reinstalling)
Finally I attempted to reinstall all the packages by entering: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a
dpkg-reconfigure runs for a bit, but pretty quickly I get the following error message and it terminates:
update-intramfs: Generate /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-20-generic
cron stop/waiting
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package
Does anyone have any idea's what could be causing the GUI failure or the dpkg-reconfigure error? Halp please