Hi all,

Host Ubuntu 12.04 desktop 64bit
VM Ubuntu 12.04 server 64bit
Virtualizer Oracle VirtualBox

I followed;
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 12.10)
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...l-ubuntu-12.10

installing the LAMP server on the VM running remote installation on the host terminal vis ssh. It worked without problem. After having finished "1 Preliminary Note" I took a break with the PC switched off.

After the break I started the PC and the server on the VM. Unfortunately I forgot to run;
$ ssh user@192.168.0.101
on the host terminal to login on the server.

Then I followed "2 Install Postfix, Courier, Saslauthd, MySQL, phpMyAdmin" installing;installing those packages on the host terminal and finished up to "4 Create The MySQL Database For Postfix/Courier".

Then I realised having made this mistake installing those packages on the host. I started removing the installed packages on host terminal by;

1)
$ apt-get remove postfix
(no problem)

2)
$ sudo apt-get phpmyadmin apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-mysql
(also no problem)

3)
IIRC on running;
$ sudo apt-get openssl

I was NOT allowed to remove it, suggesting to run "autoremove"

On running;
$ sudo apt-get autoremove openssl
Suddenly I saw it starting removing GNOME packages.

I could not stop the action even with the terminal closed.

I switched to F3 (Text Mode) and rebooted PC. But I could not started the host, warning low graphic.

I think I could start rescue mode dropping to shell. Please help how to rescue this PC. There are about 20 VMs running on this box.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

Get the log, and find out what is/was uninstalled from the host. If disk space isn't a problem, it's not a disaster to have unwanted packages lying about. It is a disaster not to have wanted packages.

One quick bodge might be a global update - however you do that in ubuntu. That might catch missing dependencies for you. Then see what you have, and fix the host machine first.

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

I got it fixed with following steps.

1) booted the PC
2) dropped to Init-1
3) Ran;
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
$ sudo reboot

Ubuntu desktop comes back.

Second time I encountered "low graphic mode" on running;
$ sudo apt-get remove libsasl2-2

It started deleting graphic packages. Promptly I rebooted PC. It booted to "low graphic mode" again. I have to re-install the desktop again.

It is quite strange not all following mistakenly installed packages can be removedsatimis