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I have only Ubuntu 12.04 on my system. After I installed some updates, I restarted and the boot sequence would skip the GRUB Menu and go straight to the first option (normal Ubuntu boot).

Even if I press Shift or Space, it would not load. It would start to load the Ubuntu logo, then go black.

If I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 then I am able to login, and run some commands, but if I go to the graphical mode (Ctrl+alt+F7) then it is stuck in the picture shown here.

I want to boot via the recovery mode.

http://tinypic.com/r/33eiyd3/5

I haven't tried boot-recovery, but I will. Anything else I can do?

update #1: I removed timidity, and restarted (in hindsight, timidity wasn't the problem as it was the last thing that had [OK] next to it). Now it boots, but it goes into a black screen after it displays the Ubuntu logo, right before it is supposed to go into desktop. It's not a black-screen-no-signal thing, it is like the background is all black. I tried booting from USB, and the same thing happened. I am slightly annoyed, because there is no apparent reason for this. Now I can't even go into the terminal. I would be happy to receive any suggestions.

karel
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jon18
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I am copying this from my other (more recent) post on a later Ubuntu version,hopefully this can help someone in the future: Ubuntu boots to black screen with cursor after upgrade (from 18.04 to 20.04)

I would try to re-install the GUI / Desktop:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

or

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Edit: related Reinstall Gnome

2nd Edit:

Just in case this wouldn't work for someone in the future:

You can always try to install another (different) GUI/Desktop: Like LXDE, and from there (when you have a working GUI/Desktop) Maybe

try different things?

Extremely glad it worked and that I could help!

Note: I have noticed that

This seems to be a very, very common problem (Because I have often, and some of my friends - had this problem, some other problem

that (in my case) was after this worked; was the Ubuntu was laggy, but in my case it resolved itself to just, install drivers & update the OS and reboot. (In case this would be the issue after, this could be a good thing to try)

William Martens
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Not sure what kind is your video card, you can try this:

  sudo su
  wget http://smxi.org/sg/sgfxi
  chmod +x sgfxi
  ./sgfxi

This script is designed to help installing Nvidia/AMD proprietary drivers automatically downloading them from vendor's site. I suspect kernel was updated.

jet
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