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Calling it quits for me tonight. Will spend the day playing around with the computer and will see if I notice anything else, thanks again!!

After a reboot, the error has not reappeared (yet) after opening chrome. I ran the command:

sudo apt-get autoremove

there is quite a bit of packages to be removed. Do you think I should I do...

Also gnome-control-center still won't open. I get the bus error and pop-up that says that the application has closed unexpectedly.

I'm going to continue to play around with everything

Thanks for walking me through this!!!

Everything looks good, except after rebooting & opening chrome, I experienced an internal error. Not sure what triggered it though.. rebooting or opening...

Yup!

No output when running 'sudo dpkg -C' ...that's a good sign, right?!

looks like it automatically started the GUI login page, yay!

I logged in and the desktop seems to be restored, as well as the side bar and top menu bar! The terminal window also opens successfully

I ran: sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-desktop

and the response was that it wasn't installed, so won't be removed.

Running the command:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

...it's moving along...

okay now it looks like:setparams 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.8.0-35-generic'

recordfail
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy...

This is what I see now:

setparams 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.8.0-35-generic'

recordfail
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'

i see that line you wrote but that's BEFORE quiet splash, not AFTER..

I just want to make sure I am not removing too much

Just to verify... I remove "quiet splash $vt_handoff intrd /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-35-generic" and replace with "text" then press ctrl-x??

I'm not familiar with how to boot to grub...how do I do that?

It boots to the GUI desktop normally... Opening the terminal produces the same result, black terminal screen with no way to type

Wondering if I can boot from a LiveCD to restore some functionality... Do you have some thoughts on how..?

When I try to open the terminal... It's just a black screen, I can't type anything

...so it seems to be completely broke now. I can't open anything... The side bar and top bar are completely missing :(

this was the output from upgrading:



sean@Sean-Monster:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.utexas.edu precise Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.canonical.com precise Release.gpg ...

Okay I ran..

sudo apt-get purge g++
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get purge libaudio2:amd64
sudo apt-get install libaudio2:amd64
sudo apt-get purge binutils
sudo apt-get install binutils...

...i should say that I'm noticing a lot of missing icons now, which is kind of concerning =/

sudo apt-get purge humanity-icon-theme


sean@Sean-Monster:~$ sudo apt-get install humanity-icon-theme
Fetched 27.9 MB in 58s (480 kB/s)
Extracting...

hmmm

sean@Sean-Monster:~$ sudo dpkg -C
The following packages are missing the list control file in the
database, they need to be reinstalled:
humanity-icon-theme Humanity Icon theme


The...

I'm going to run apt-get autoremove...

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sean@Sean-Monster:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done...

After running the commands above, I tried to open gnome-control-center again, I got an error, so I tried the logs again, but nothing! ...see below:


sean@Sean-Monster:~$ gnome-control-centerBus...

...doesn't look like it actually did anything



sudo apt-get install humanity-icon-theme

sean@Sean-Monster:~$ sudo apt-get install humanity-icon-theme
[sudo] password for sean:
Reading...

With respect to the logs, does EE and WW stand for something? Because typing as-is, nothing returns..

sudo dpkg -C

sean@Sean-Monster:~$ sudo dpkg -C[sudo] password for sean:
The following...