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I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 on our lab computer. The system was working fine until a labmate tried to install updates (he wasn't super clear on what he did... can't seem to figure it out), since then it's had a string of issues with gdm. I managed to uninstall the nouveau drivers and replace with the proprietary drivers for my graphics card, which is what everything was working smoothly in. I come back 2 days later, and now I can't launch gdm anymore.
Can someone help? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling this driver and the nouveau driver and had no luck... I tried to run apt-get update and --fix-missing
If you're not dual-booting, press "ESC" on power-up to enter Grub menu, select "Rescue Mode", run XFIX. This has corrected a lot of errors with Ubuntu for me in the past, from failed updates to swapping HDD into a different PC.
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