Failed upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 LTS now I can't boot

**Bashing-om** · October 13th, 2014

tequiladave-n; Welp !!

What you are going to do is open the file in the text editor;
THEN copy and paste the line " display-setup-script=xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1280x768 " to the bottom of the file.
save the file in your text editor and exit back to terminal.

NOW log out - and log back into the desk top .. rebooting though clears all memory, better to reboot in may cases.

It is what is called

editing a file

**tequiladave-n** · October 13th, 2014

But and pardon my ignorance how do I open the file in the text editor? When I run the command it asks for my password but nothing shows up.

**Iowan** · October 13th, 2014

I haven't read all 112 posts, so I may have missed something.
When you enter a password, there will be no echo to the screen - it's a security feature.

**Bashing-om** · October 13th, 2014

tequiladave-n; Iowan; Yikes !

Think I am the victim of 'tunnel vision" once more. I bet "gedit" is not the editor installed on the system.
(L)ubuntu is it not ?
Then is not 'leafpad' the default editor ?
Then:

Code:

gksudo leadpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Maybe also - in my hazy memory, one had to start leafpad, right click on the file and choose "open as root" (???) .

Let's see what is

and what works

**tequiladave-n** · October 13th, 2014

Well that worked, thank you very much. Now I am trying to teach myself how to get all the computers in this house on the same network so I can abolish memory sticks to get films and files from one computer to another... I know I know it is probably really easy but since I have windows and linux computers... it is not that easy for me.

**Iowan** · October 13th, 2014

For a mixed environment (Linux and Windows), you'll probably be using Samba.

**Bashing-om** · October 13th, 2014

@tequiladave-n ; Good deal;

samba is the subject of another thread, I do not use Windows, and have no familiarity with samba.
Others will advise better in this context.

@Iowan; Appreciate that you guide, guard and direct the forum and that you have my back.

where do we go from here

**tequiladave-n** · October 13th, 2014

I did use Samba and managed to link up linux and windows using a tutorial I found online but whilst I am ok opening files from my linux machine on my windows computer, I can't open the Windows files on my Linux machine, at least on VLC

All I want to do is to open video files I might download on either of the two machines and watch it from any of the two.