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I have a year-old HP Pavilion dv6 with Intel i7 processors and graphics card. I had Windows 7 but last week I dual booted Ubuntu. It was working fine until today.

I did the following things:

  • Updated Gnome and installed Gnome tweak tool
  • Uninstalled Chromium browser
  • Uninstalled Google Chrome
  • Moved jdk and jre folders from ~/ to /bin using sudo
  • Moved Adobe folder from ~/ to /bin using sudo

Then I restarted. Ubuntu froze for half an hour on the purple boot screen. Something I did must have broken it. So, I hit Ctrl + Alt + F1 and managed to log in through the command line. From there, I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. I also updated grub. I also installed boot-repair. However, I cannot run boot-repair, because I keep getting the following errors:

Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed

RuntimeError: Gtk couldn't be initialized.

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This may worK:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm (you said that you can log on.)

Then choose "Ok", and select a display manager from a list. That can be lightdm, gdm, ... (if you have installed it, for example, by sudo apt-get install gdm)

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  • And since you can log in, it is likely that you don't have to run boot-repair, and I don't think it is easy to launch the program from that terminal.
    – Huynh
    Oct 7, 2012 at 3:44

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