can only boot in safe mode

[louis.roux]

After I upgraded to 11.04 I now can only boot in safe mode. When I boot up in regular mode everything on the desktop is showing but I cant open anything. When I try to boot up in the classic mode, which is what I prefer, I just get my wallpaper on my desktop but no icons or anything. I didn't mind the safe mode at first but I now realise I cant install any updates which isn't good. I have 222 updates that need installed.

[garvinrick4]

When you have booted and nothing is happening:
ctrl/alt/f2
log in

unity --reset
ctrl/alt/f7
see if it works now.
If not then
ctrl/alt/f2
log in

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
that should update you.
Ctrl/alt/f7
above gets back to GUI:

[louis.roux]

Neither of those worked and I can still only boot in safe mode.

[wojox]

Hold the left shift key and choose recovery mode and root shell with networking:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

[louis.roux]

Wojox, it says it cant move. Permission denied. Ugh

[wojox]

Wojox, it says it cant move. Permission denied. Ugh

Oh try sudo:


sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

[louis.roux]

Wojox I hope you are still there. Sorry I am just getting back to your last reply. But I tried the code in sudo and it says the file doesnt exist.

[Blasphemist]

Try going into recovery mode and root console like wojox said and use this code.

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
sudo reboot