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How to fix “The system is running in low-graphics mode” error?

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my machine, since I had some previous problems. I had to recover files through Photorec. My hard-drive is full and I couldn't even finish the recovery process.

When I powered it up again, an error came up

The system is running in low-graphics mode

I donˈt know if it has anything to do with the recovery process, or the that hard drive got full. I need to delete those recup_dir folders, but also I need to finish recovering and get through the error.

Zanna
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Susie
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I'm not familiar with the Photorec thing, but have you tried to make system repairs by means of the Recovery GRUB menu...? If you don't see the GRUB menu, try hitting Esc while your PC is booting in order to display it...

anvo
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If you use Nvidia:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo nvidia-xconfig

If this doesn't work try to change your download server in order to re-download all updates (Administration -> Update Manager -> Ubuntu Software -> Download from)

If you use Tor repository disable it (I don't know if this have to do with the problem but I did before solving it).

If you don't use Nvidia edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root instead of typing "sudo nvidia-xconfig".

Octávio Filipe Gonçalves
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  • Thanks, but it didnˈt work..something has happened, but Iˈm again stuck there..for sudo nvidia-xconfig it answered command not found..so I tried also that etc..and- Error: no write permission for file "etc/X11/xorg.conf"...what's wrong? – Susie Jun 05 '12 at 12:40
  • did you install nvidia drivers? apt-get install nvidia-common nvidia-settings nvidia-current – Octávio Filipe Gonçalves Jun 05 '12 at 12:41
  • It says I don't have enough space.. – Susie Jun 05 '12 at 13:14