is there any way to recover from this???

I have a white screen with an arrow...

Is there a way to back it out? I knew I should not have done this upgrade... everything was working great on 9.4 for me too.

something about one or mounts listed in /etc/fstab could not mount but ti goes by way to fast.

If "a white screen with an arrow" is a broken X display, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 will dump you into a terminal from where you can look at the contents of /var/log/ and give us a better idea of what state your system is in.

If it is so broken that you can't do that, you could always try booting with a live-CD (e.g. knoppix, or isn't the ubuntu install CD a live CD?) mount your main disk and have a look at the logs from there.

Good luck.

See if this helps:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308203

Ctrl+Alt+F2 will get you to a console so that you can attempt the repair.

this install is such a piece of crap.. i cannot believe they would put.. something out like that.

ok i booted to my fedora image and here is the logs from the ubuntu image... OK what logs do you need. I just realized there are several and the boot.log is empty

i tried to upload the bootstrap log but not sure where it went

i should have gone out on the boat...

this is my /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=befc8a95-e59a-4adc-aab0-2c5c3b6dacbd / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda4 :
UUID=7ab7a9d1-8dc7-49f3-a0db-f7e4baa88620 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

never min it booted in the cmd line now...trying the dpkg --configure -a cmd now.

Setting up virtualbix-ose-source (3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu)...
Adding modules to DKMS build system
Doing inital module builds

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.27-7-generic cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/build or /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/source.
dkpg: error processing virtualbox-ose-source (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Error were encountered while processing:
virtualbos-ose-source

ok so i did a dpkg --remove virtualbox-ose-source and am now rebooting no more error when running dpkg --configure -a


I hope it boots now...
I guess if that works then ill have to figure out how to get virtual box back on since i run a windows partition in it.

nope i still get the white screen

ok interesting... i had another user on my system and i logged in with that id and got a desktop.

so may be there is something specific to that user ID...

What should I look at

OK so I got in as my alternate user and here is some of the errors from the .xsession-errors

Also I noticed my wireless networking will not work. I went into hardware manager and there is not much I can do in the screen.

Lots of these messages :


** (gnome-volume-control-applet:4242): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

** (gnome-settings-daemon:4204): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

** (gnome-volume-control-applet:4242): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

** (gnome-settings-daemon:4204): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

Ok so I tried to run update manager to see if there was something missing

I get:
Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic '--hide-main-window' '--non-interactive' '--parent-window-id' '67108903' '--update-at-startup' as user root.

The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator.

i moved my /home/usr to an backup location and recreated a blank home dir and was able to login again...
I need ot know how I can get my old stuff back. this is totally insane...

well it appears vb is installed and working but I dont seem to have my windows system in the list.. I am guessing this is stored in some dir that may or may not be there. How can I find it?

Well I found my virtual system in
/home/unixadm_old/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXP_Pro.vdi

So I moved it to
/home/unixadm/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXP_Pro.vdi
But it wont import.

This is the least of my worries but I needed to take a time-out from the other errors.. Its really frustrating me as I need this laptop to do all my stuff on.

so i tried to move the /home/user.old dir to /home/userold and it moved but now i dont have any of my file or errors i had before. why would mv over write and not move it to the new name..so I think i am really hozed now and cannot recover from it.

I should add that i created a new user with the ID of userold so I could reproduce the error logging in. I used the /home/userold as my dir and then logged in and thats when i saw everything was gone.