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My install was interrupted because of a power cut. I recovered from it, using the command

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Now, I get a violet boot screen like normal, but the progress bar is shown as 4 dots, and Ubuntu is displayed in a simple font, reminiscent of the DOS era. What do I do to make it right? I have Nvidia drivers. Also, worth mentioning is that before showing the boot screen, I get a line of text saying:

............ unreliable temperature sensor.............

I use a Asus M3N78-EM, AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia 9400GT 512 MB.

Thanks.

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  • I use a Asus M3N78-EM AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition 4GB DDR2, Nvidia 9400GT 512 MB.
    – theTuxRacer
    Oct 23, 2010 at 9:28

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Install cryptsetup package (side effect of this action is logo normalization)

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A clean install with power during the entire process will do the trick in the safest way.

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    I cant do that, because I have lots of packages and settings installed. But Open Help's answer did the trick.
    – theTuxRacer
    Oct 23, 2010 at 9:19
  • Sure, Open Help's answer is very usefull I said this because "an inrerupted installation process" always scares me. I don't have deep technical knowledge on the subject, its just a feeling. I hope there aren't more broken things.
    – marenostrum
    Oct 23, 2010 at 12:32
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To recover from a broken install without loosing configuration, you can :

  1. boot on live usb
  2. make backup of broken system from live usb
  3. fresh re-install (with preserve /home option)
  4. restore any config files you need from backup made in step 2.
  5. reinstall packages
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Yes, that's the boot-screen.

Sidenote: No, I'm not gonna argue about the design...what you see is the right and perfect working boot screen.

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