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Four GUIs off USB Boot
I am booting Ubuntu on a mac off of a USB drive. When I start it up there is a black screen giving me the options to try Ubuntu, install Ubuntu, or 2 other options. I select try Ubuntu and four GUIs ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu suddenly stopped booting to GUI and startx stalls
I am running Ubuntu 12.04. A few hours ago, I started up my machine, checked my email, played a couple albums on Spotify and turned it off again. I did not notice anything out of the ordinary and I ...
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How do I choose a graphical or text boot at boot time? [duplicate]
I have a 12.04 in desktop, but sometimes I just want to boot without X-windows. I don't want the GUI.
How do I disable X at boot time?
Can I add both options? Or do I just start the GUI and then ...
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How do I get Ubuntu 12.10 to boot GUI after removing libjpeg8?
In an attempt to install pygame on Ubuntu 12.10 I removed lib8jpeg
sudo apt-get remove libjpeg8
so I could reinstall it. "This will fix that the pesky missing JPEG dependency," I thought.
Since ...
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0answers
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How do I make Ubuntu boot up in CLI? [duplicate]
I want to boot up in the command line instead of Unity. How?
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1answer
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No Unity/compiz after boot - GTK problem?
ASUS Zenbook Prime, Ubuntu 12.10 using double boot with Windows 7.
While working in Ubuntu, suddenly file icons didn't display properly anymore (all icons where the same white page) and desktop ...
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init: ureadahead-other main process(844) terminated with status 4,
I get the following error message:
init: ureadahead-other main process(844) terminated with status 4,
The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present continue to wait; or press S to Skip ...
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1answer
101 views
Option for logging in with GUI or CLI
I am using a desktop with dual boot options Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm able to use both the systems very well.
Is there any option/method so that instead of logging in to GUI directly, ...
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1answer
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I removed nvidia driver and lshw -c video still shows nvidia
Today I tried to activate the newer experimental drivers and both 304 and 310 failed to even install. So I tried the regular nvidia driver 295.40 for the 20th time today (I had lag issues and was ...
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3answers
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How can I set my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to boot to console without GUI?
So I installed Ubuntu server to run some tests on a VM. For various reasons I couldn't get a specific DEB file, and instead of using a shared folder I decided it would be a good idea to install ...
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3answers
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How to start GUI from command line?
I've installed the following version of ubuntu om my machine.
ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
But when I switch on the computer now, I get command line;
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS COMP-1245 tty1
where ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu boots to terminal on start up
For a long time I've been unable to get updates due to a "repositories not found" error. Yesterday someone fixed this for me but after installing 94 days worth of updates my system wanted to restart.
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1answer
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Computer is randomly shutting down. What could be?
I'm having some problems, my computer is shutting down at random intervals, but from today it started to shut off rigth after the login screen.
It's a Toshiba Laptop. I thought it was the cpu ...
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1answer
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GUI not showing after installation of 11.10 on virtual machine
Steps i did
1.) Specs of VM
512MB RAM
20GB HD
1Core
2.) Open ISO on VM
3.) Specify Username and password
4.) Boot
5.) Select English
6.) reboot after install
7.) the prompt told me that ...
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0answers
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Ubuntu loads directly to terminal [closed]
I had some issues with file system but I ran recovery and now it seamed to be fine. But I was stuck at purple loading screen. this was very common error so as one topic suggested I opened ...
0
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1answer
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Not able to view GUI screen in Ubuntu after installing in VMware Workstation 7
I have installed VMWare Workstation 7.1.4 on a Intel Core 2 Duo Machine running on Windows 7 OS.
I downloaded the DVD image ubuntu-11.04-dvd-i386 from the ubuntu website and installed it on the ...
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2answers
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How do I get the GUI to come back?
My computer for some reason is no longer booting into the GUI. It sends me straight to the command line. How do I get it to launch the GUI and how do I get it to launch the GUI by default on startup? ...
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Stopping XFCE4 from starting up on boot on Ubuntu Server 10.04 [closed]
I installed xfce4 on my Ubuntu Server 10.04 based server to be able to use a GUI remotely through VNC. I installed it using the command sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
However, after that, the ...
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3answers
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Any way to clean up the look of the shutdown/logout/restart process?
So, I've given up trying to configure my system (ubuntu 10.10, open source ATI drivers) to shutdown/logout/restart gracefully. Whenever I do any of the three, all I get is an ugly ubuntu logo with ...
