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Yesterday I got a new laptop pre-loaded with Windows 7. I immediately used the Windows Installer to put Ubuntu 12.04 on my system. Everything worked fine yesterday, but when I tried to boot Ubuntu this morning after leaving my computer off overnight, a couple of error lines having to do with NTSF flashed quicker than I can read and the login screen came up. Unfortunately, the login screen then gets stuck and won't do anything. I've read other threads on this but can't get to Terminal anyway so how am I supposed to do anything about this when Ubuntu won't seem to mount properly? Do I reinstall and hope it won't happen again? I've had too many problems with Ubuntu updates and I'm seriously reconsidering its usefulness.

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I should also mention I installed the 64-bit version and I think this has something to do with it. I'm going to try uninstalling Wubi and installing from a CD. – Scrambo May 5 '12 at 17:29
This question should instead be filed as a bug report, and as such is off-topic, thanks! Instructions on filing a bug report are here. – Jorge Castro Dec 27 '12 at 18:03

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I don't know what screen appears to you, but try pressing ctrl+alt+f1. this will open the terminal (works if you are stuck at the login screen)

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I reinstalled from a cd, dual boot with Windows 7 (thank god), did all the upgrades, and it works fine until I restart, not after restarting following the upgrades but later on. Then it gets stuck/crashes on the loading screen with no error message. I can use recovery mode now but I have no idea what to do from there. When I attempted to resume booting from there, I got a message that said something about a "broken pipe". – Scrambo May 6 '12 at 7:15
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So it's still stuck, and where I was able to access terminal from the crashed loading screen it won't let me do that anymore. Guess I'm going back to windows, tired of dealing with this incredibly buggy OS. – Scrambo May 6 '12 at 7:56
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Same happened to me. Two days ago I made a clean install of 12.04 on 4 identical Guest-PC at my work where visitors can access the internet. All of them worked fine, even after several restarts and a couple of days later non of them would boot. They all started to continuously reboot before the login-screen appeared. I suspect this must have something to do with some kind of automatic update that must have taken place. I now made a clean install of 11.10 to all the computers again and deactivated even the upgrade option so I won´t get tempted in the future.

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