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[Tom <question77276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77276 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77276

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi

Going back to Recovery Mode from the the list of options for trying to
boot into Ubuntu.  You should get a lot of lines rushing by too fast to
read, so that was ok up to there :)  Hopefully this will get you to a
disturbingly blue screen with a menu.  Choose "fix x-server", as well as
the options you tried before (such as in your original question where
you said you'd tried "fix broken packages").  The "fix x-server" is the
menu item that attempts to repair graphical problems.

Recovery mode also allows you to "Drop to a Root Shell", of course,
which it sounds like you've been using already to enter commands.  I
think typing something like

apt-get -h | more

or even just

apt-get -h

might give some help on how to use apt-get to help fix this.  Note the |
key is either somewhere up around the enter key on laptops or american
keyboards but is between the "z" and the "shift" key on uk keyboards.
On the keyboard it usually has a little gap in the middle of the line.

Anyway, i think the command that might help fix this is

apt-get dist-upgrade

I'm not convinced that editing grub will really help, i think that's
going off on a tangent but i'm not sure.  I guess it would be nice to
know if you have an Ubuntu Cd there, either 8.04 or any other might have
a few tricks we could use here.  Even the Cd of a completely different
linux distro might be useful as a LiveCd to help with communications
with this site ;)  Please let us know if you do have an Ubuntu or other
disro's cd and which version you think it might be ;)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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