XBMC hijacked my computer!!

[reydempto]

So i was trying out different ways of networking my 360 to my computer. i have several hundred gigs of movies and stuff on my hard drive, and it looks a lot better on the 40 inch tv than on my crt monitor

i installed xbmc, and didn't like it, and finally settled with ushare.

problem is, when i restarted my computer, xbmc took over! no more ubuntu! so i logged out, and logged in as root into a terminal, and removed xbmc using apt-get. i removed all of its lib files as well. however, now when i restart, i get this error:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning Session Setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.exec: 1: xbmc: Not Found
(this is an error log from ~/.xsession-errors)

help me! i am using gnome's safe mode option to boot right now, but i need to get back to normal

[K.Y.A]

So i was trying out different ways of networking my 360 to my computer. i have several hundred gigs of movies and stuff on my hard drive, and it looks a lot better on the 40 inch tv than on my crt monitor

i installed xbmc, and didn't like it, and finally settled with ushare.

problem is, when i restarted my computer, xbmc took over! no more ubuntu! so i logged out, and logged in as root into a terminal, and removed xbmc using apt-get. i removed all of its lib files as well. however, now when i restart, i get this error:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning Session Setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.exec: 1: xbmc: Not Found
(this is an error log from ~/.xsession-errors)

help me! i am using gnome's safe mode option to boot right now, but i need to get back to normal

Simple. You installed XBMC live, which removes Ubuntu-desktop. You have to make sure you check what new packages will remove when you install them... simply run:

 sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

[reydempto]

when i do that all i get is :


ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.

[K.Y.A]

when i do that all i get is :


ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.

Hmm. try this:

sudo apt-get remove xbmc xbmc-live

[reydempto]

yeah, as i said, i already removed xbmc and all of its lib components.

[K.Y.A]

yeah, as i said, i already removed xbmc and all of its lib components.

I was just hoping you forgot something.

What I think is going on is that you either removed an important lib or xbmc did not completely uninstall. Try this:

sudo apt-get remove --purge xbmc xbmc-live

and then

sudo apt-get clean