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!
1 Answer
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
.