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11.10 beta won't boot with net support.

Asked by John Winterton

I applied the latest updates today and now cannot get a boot into any working state. By using the "drop to root" request from the recovery menu, I can get a console which now tells me that no network profile can be found.

This makes it more or less impossible to continue my beta testing of this release. It is loaded on my alternate partition, but I have no way to get it to talk to the net. I can mount this partition under 11.04 but lack the knowledge to do anything further with it.

I did do a boot repair to even get this far with it after it died completely, looping in the gdm login. If I can somehow repair the 11.10 system from within 11.04, I would do it.

Please advise, thanks.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

On a ubuntu 11.10 unstable i was not able to login anf i do this steps that may help you...

Please try to upgrade your system be sure is connected to the net (use wired connection) then press:

ctrl + alt +f2

you will get access to a pseudo terminal, made login with your user and password,
(give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter)
then type:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install compiz-gnome unity-2d lightdm
compiz --reset
unity --reset

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

choose lightdm as default DM to use press enter, then reboot, type:

sudo reboot

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#2

Thanks, but I can't get logged on easily. Instead I made a live 11.10 beta 1 CD and installed from it. After that, it was necessary to do a restart with repair using the dpkg option, which got me up.

I am now able to resume testing, but something has been broken in Xorg, because I am unable to install either of the selected graphics driver. I will report this bug when I get a better handle on it.

Testing resumed.

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#3

P.S. The content of the Live CD really doesn't get you very far.