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ubuntu live cd - install won't go graphical

  • 30-08-2008 9:44am
    #1
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭


    I did something weird last night when I was trying to reinstall ubuntu and now the live cd won't boot into X it just goes straight into console/expert mode, even if I try to boot ubuntu direct from the Cd it just jumps into console.. and if the fact that I've had to reinstall 4 times in as many days teaches me anything it's that I'm just not ready for console mode.

    any ideas on what I did, how to undo it?


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  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    You sure it's actually booting from the CD?


  • #3
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yeah, I was trying to update ubuntu ran 'sudo apt-get upgrade' last night.. but it kept freezing at certain packages and when I had to kill X or reboot, it wouldn't let me start again I had to run 'dpkg --configure -a' which kept stalling at the same packages each time. After trying to boot into the live cd last night and failing, I just left ppkg running all night and when I woke up it was still on the same package I left it on. Oddly enough a f ew minutes after I woke up, that package cancelled itself and moved onto the next package.. which started to stall as well). I can boot into ubuntu, I'm using it now... but dpkg still stalls and I'm afraid I'm done some damage with my abortive update which is why I was trying to boot from the cd and start again

    . So it's definitely not booting off the HD when it goes into console, cos the hd boots fine.. it's just what it does afterwards that worries me.


  • #4
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    well, I put in a different cd drive and now the cd is booting up fine... one of the pins on my dvdrw has snapped in half which apparently is what caused the problem considering the other cd drive worked straight away.

    so I guess it's new future is propping up one of my speakers :/


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