gui fails to initalize

[jackechanprime]

ok, 'i don't know the exact bloody name of the package' would be more precise there. it was the new ubuntu 8.10 upgrade thing, i just clicked 'upgrade' and followed the instructions.

ok, just so you know, i'm a total nub. i don't know any of the technical details. I downloaded the upgrade package and installed. my bandwidth has been shot to hell for the past 3 days for no apparent reason. (a problem affecting 3 comps) so the download took an inordinate amount of time. and had to be restarted several times due to things like screensavers going up and forgetting to tell the thing not to hibernate. so yeah, potentially botched download but since it said 'it retained all files' i think everything went ok. other than those minor hiccups i followed the provided instructions as usual. when it got to the restart step, the computer restarted creatively enough, but then after doing so it stuck at the 'running local boot scripts' page. so i restarted it again (which i get the feeling might not have been a good idea), but it still did the same thing, freezing (or just not doing anything, i couldn't tell which. at this point and i managed to type a few profanity into the computer screen, so it defiantly wasn't frozen. i didn't even get a 'command not found' for my efforts though.) i restarted it one last time and left it on over night to see if it would actually 'run' these scripts... no gold there. it stayed stuck on that screen, and is still.

if i push 'alt+f4' terminal engages... however unhelpful that is to me, as i cant even run a program through terminal let alone boot my computer with it. (note: total nub: discovered this by accident while mashing random keys trying to get the comp to DO something)

lsb_release comes back as: 'no LSB modules are available'
'apt-cache policy packagename' gave me back: 'W: unable to locate package packagename'

somethings wrong with the gui initializing is the best educated guess i can possibly make... cause i honestly dont know. i think it's pretty obvious what i expected to happen. my computer should have booted up normally!-

lsb_release comes back as: 'no LSB modules are available'
... that doesn't sound good... did i somehow manage to uninstall ubuntu?
apt-cache policy packagename gave me back: 'W: unable to locate package packagename'
so yeah... don't know enough to know that i don't know on this one. sorry if this is something small and stupid that i did myself without realizing it... or something like that.

[Krzysztof Drewniak (krzysdrewniak)]

Your /etc/apt/sources.list and any files starting with sources.list [excluding backups] in the /etc/apt directory

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi jackechanprime,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 292292

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[jackechanprime (jackechanprime)]

this issue is no longer a problem. it has been resolved. it can be archived
for reference if others encounter similar bugs. i no longer need it.

thanks!
Q

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Closing per the previous comment. Thanks.