raffaele181188
April 28th, 2012, 12:39 PM
I was running 11.10 and I was happy. Since a couple of days I kept getting suggested to upgrade, but I didn't care: I was fine. Today a nice window popped up announcing that the shiny new 12.04 was ready and I finally decided to trust it: it was a nice window - and I also thought that after a pair of dozens of versions Ubuntu could upgrade without breaking. So I clicked "Ok" and it downloaded the dist-upgrade tool and started getting the packages and installing them. Finally the pleasant window told that it was better to restart the system. But then...
The USB mouse doesn't work! There is no wallpaper, no icons, not even one! All I can do is Alt+F2, searching "xterm" and start it, but the window can't get the focus, my mouse doesn't work, so I don't even have a shell (no, the "terminal" app doesn't even start, don't know why...)
And now? How am I supposed to recover such a distaster? Should I install everything from the CD? Why, Ubuntu, why? I don't have that exotic hardware: it's a plain desktop machine with just about an Intel mobo, a Core2, and an integrated Intel card.
The USB mouse doesn't work! There is no wallpaper, no icons, not even one! All I can do is Alt+F2, searching "xterm" and start it, but the window can't get the focus, my mouse doesn't work, so I don't even have a shell (no, the "terminal" app doesn't even start, don't know why...)
And now? How am I supposed to recover such a distaster? Should I install everything from the CD? Why, Ubuntu, why? I don't have that exotic hardware: it's a plain desktop machine with just about an Intel mobo, a Core2, and an integrated Intel card.