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Old 08-04-2008, 01:47 AM   #1
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Question ubuntu problems


hi,

yesterday when updating latest software, it asked me if i want to update to 8.04 so i tried it everything went ok. but it got stuck in the last 5 minutes for the past 8 hours.

i shut down the laptop but now i can log in but after that it is blank screen.

can anyone suggest something, or do i have to reinstall ubuntu agian(which i dont want to)?

thanks
 
Old 08-04-2008, 01:58 AM   #2
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^^Update when going to recovery mode it says mounting local files failed...


help please
 
Old 08-04-2008, 06:51 AM   #3
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Ugh.. Sorry I can't help on this one, but I hope you had a good backup. This is one of several reasons I hate upgrading, and just always clean install...

Good luck

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Old 08-04-2008, 07:52 AM   #4
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lucky i didnt had anything on that partition. anyway i will download 8.04 and do fresh install if u guys dont have any other suggestions
 
  


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