Help - no gui !!!
 

I was running Ubuntu 10.04 without any problems for over a month until a few minutes ago my laptop went to sleep and just blocked on resume with a screen with black pixels. I was forced to turn it off. When I turned it on, the same black screen appears. So I tried with the other kernels and with the recovery modes with no success.

In recovery mode I tried the atlernative Graphical server but still cannot show any GUI. At least I have access to terminal. I think the problem may be resolved if I remove the Nvidia Driver. Do you know the name of that package? Should I then use the "apt-get remove ----" command?

Maybe you would suggest a different solution?

My main concern is my Firefox Bookmarks. Do you know how can I export/save them from either the terminal or another OS?

Thanks



EDIT: Actually, if I don't select "recovery mode" and boot in just normal more, what happens is the "UBUNTU" splash screens stays on the screen for ever. Only when I select recovery mode, I get black a menu and then if I choose "Normal Boot" or "Alternative Graphical server" from that menu I get the black screen.

The rescue mode don't have a GUI, so it is not the problem. Your problem is caused by the sleep mode. It notorious to be buggy and cause your problem. The nvidia driver have different name depending on the card model. You can press "apt-get remove nvidia<tab><tab>" to attempt to autocomplete the name (the completion is not always turned on for commands) or you can use the "aptitude" command, it will fire up a text based gui so you can search that is installed. You can use the menu with F10 or enable the mouse (apt-get install gpm && service gpm start).

You can save mozilla settings by creating a backup of the /home/username/.mozilla folder.

To see which nvidia packages you have installed:
ii = installed
un = not installed