HalvorOslo
May 4th, 2011, 09:18 PM
I'll describe the symptoms.
1. I was not in an upgrade situation when the issue manifested. I was simply restarting the pc for some ordinary reason.
2. When I came to the graphical logon screen, it was changed. Instead of the "soft" purplish look it now had a "hard" (like Windows 3.1) look, a black background, a grey box with a blue pc icon at the top, and the default user box had an "air force blue" background.
3. What happens when I enter the usual password is that either the logon screen comes back, or I hear the three rapid tamtam drum sounds and I'm in the black.
I googled "ubuntu terminal reinstall" and I have tried a few commands that didn't help me any (sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, sudo apt-get install -f, sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a)
Now, either can someone tell me how I fix this, btw. I'm on a communal pc that is really BAD, but noone in charge bothers to fix it. (That's why I installed ubuntu on it in the first place - it had only Windows XP Pro.) Or could my initial request solve the problem, i.e. would the appropriate command to do a reinstall perhaps solve the problem? If so, what is that command?
I could also mention that not too long after the most recent upgrade of build ubuntu started to drop out of its gui displaying a series of messages that didn't make any sense to me (one about PulseAudio, I don't remember the others). For the many weeks that this has been occurring (several times a day) I have simply dealt with it by hitting ctrl-alt-del repeatedly until it reboots.
Stats:
Ubuntu 10.04.1 and build 2.6.32-31
Processor: x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1992MHz
Video Card: Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
Monitor: Dell E772p
1. I was not in an upgrade situation when the issue manifested. I was simply restarting the pc for some ordinary reason.
2. When I came to the graphical logon screen, it was changed. Instead of the "soft" purplish look it now had a "hard" (like Windows 3.1) look, a black background, a grey box with a blue pc icon at the top, and the default user box had an "air force blue" background.
3. What happens when I enter the usual password is that either the logon screen comes back, or I hear the three rapid tamtam drum sounds and I'm in the black.
I googled "ubuntu terminal reinstall" and I have tried a few commands that didn't help me any (sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, sudo apt-get install -f, sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a)
Now, either can someone tell me how I fix this, btw. I'm on a communal pc that is really BAD, but noone in charge bothers to fix it. (That's why I installed ubuntu on it in the first place - it had only Windows XP Pro.) Or could my initial request solve the problem, i.e. would the appropriate command to do a reinstall perhaps solve the problem? If so, what is that command?
I could also mention that not too long after the most recent upgrade of build ubuntu started to drop out of its gui displaying a series of messages that didn't make any sense to me (one about PulseAudio, I don't remember the others). For the many weeks that this has been occurring (several times a day) I have simply dealt with it by hitting ctrl-alt-del repeatedly until it reboots.
Stats:
Ubuntu 10.04.1 and build 2.6.32-31
Processor: x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1992MHz
Video Card: Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
Monitor: Dell E772p