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Long story short: I used xmonad gnome and no keycombination will work to launch a terminal (I tried everything I found on the web). So now I think enough experimenting for today I would like to back to gnome. So I reboot. I get the GNU GRUB menu and I continue to ubuntu. However my system is setup is such a way that it continues to the previously used desktop manager: Xmonad gnome. Which doesn't react to any key combination. I just get the black screen with no cursor... Can't I login to ubuntu from the grub command line (just tabbing c) and start up the regular gnome desktop manager? How can I do this? Or do you guys have a better idea? Thanks!

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Hold Shift(CAUTION:this will not work in a UEFI+MBR combination) Delete quiet splash out of your kernel line and instead type this in: init=/bin/bash. This will give a usable root shell in relatively simple setups.(No RAID, no encrypted /usr, rootfs and /etc can be reached without help of network-manager). type in dpkg-reconfigure -a.

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  • I should press shift will I'm booting, isn't it?
    – user92830
    Sep 21, 2014 at 9:56
  • Yes, right after the POST when GRUB loading screen comes. Sep 21, 2014 at 9:59

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