<p>I ended up there this morning, and reinstalling Unity fixed the issue. I used Aptitude instead of apt-get though.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 26, 2012 12:54 PM, "Joel Longanecker" <<a href="mailto:joel.longanecker@gmail.com">joel.longanecker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Oh dear, Ubuntu really needs to get their Dist Upgrade process figured out.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Can you still do ctrl + alt + f1 to bring up a command line terminal?</div><div><br></div><div>You might be able to get this to work</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(224,224,224);overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px;font-family:'Ubuntu Mono','Ubuntu Beta Mono A',Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:17px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Ubuntu Mono','Ubuntu Beta Mono A',Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install unity</code></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(224,224,224);overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px;font-family:'Ubuntu Mono','Ubuntu Beta Mono A',Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:17px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Ubuntu Mono','Ubuntu Beta Mono A',Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
</code></pre></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Yaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yeah, flashdrive, sorry, my mind was in... well, 10 years ago I guess (: if you can boot from a flashdrive with enough space you can probably just bulk-copy your homedir over to it.<div><div><br>
<br>
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
I gave up on getting anything resolved tonight, so no worries there. My<br>
netbook doesn't have an optical drive, but I think I can do it via a<br>
flashdrive. Too tired to dig mine out tonight though.<br>
<br>
Backing up my data is a good plan. I can set that up tonight to run<br>
overnight, if I can get to the utility.<br>
<br>
K<br>
<br>
On Sep 26, 2012 12:21 AM, "Yaron" <<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>> wrote:<br>
Hmm. Not sure about actually getting the installation fixed<br>
right this second, but can you make an Ubuntu installation CD<br>
and then boot to the live Ubuntu and make sure you can access<br>
(and hopefully back up) all your data? You might want to get all<br>
your important stuff backed up before you try to fix anything.<br>
Worst case scenario, you then reinstall from scratch and restore<br>
all your data.<br>
<br>
Quite likely backing up your homedir would be enough, and then<br>
restoring it to a fresh installation. All your<br>
settings/bookmarks/whatever should be in there. As worst case<br>
scenarios go, it's a pretty good one.<br>
<br>
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote:<br>
<br>
<br>
Hi everyone!<br>
<br>
My name is Kat. :) I decided that tonight would be a<br>
good night to upgrade<br>
to Ubuntu 12.04. I have done upgrades solo before,<br>
and haven't had any<br>
issues. The upgrade went fine, right up until the<br>
part where I started<br>
getting a bunch of notifications that said the<br>
packets were already<br>
installed. I thought maybe that was normal, clicked<br>
ok, and went on with the<br>
process.<br>
<br>
When I rebooted, I had no menu bars, no terminal,<br>
and no internet<br>
connection! Nooooooooo! I am in *way* over my head,<br>
and I really hope one of<br>
you fine folks can help me out! I make pretty<br>
awesome cookies...<br>
<br>
Help me, Obi-Wan Tclug! You are my only hope!<br>
<br>
Fingers crossed,<br>
Kat<br>
<br>
(PS: Acer Aspire One, model # ZG5, 1.5 GB RAM.<br>
Nothing fancy.)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
-Yaron<br>
<br>
--<br>
______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
-Yaron<br>
<br>
--<br>
______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>
<a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div>