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12.04 LTS asked me to upgrade my "HWE" since the current one was no longer supported. I performed HWE upgrade and now Ubuntu comes up with a black screen and doesn't start.

Using the "Recovery" boot from the advanced boot options, I have already performed fix for broken packages, which turned up nothing. When I try to start "failsafeX" I get the following error:

gdm: unrecognized service
stop: Unknown instance:
xinit /usr/share/xdiagnose/failsafeXinit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe with - -- /u
sr/bin/X  -br -once -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe -logfile /var/log/Xorg.f
ailsafe.log

X: cannot stat /etx/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.

My computer has an nVidia GTX580 graphics card and I have been using the nVidia proprietary driver prior to the HWE upgrade.

Philipp
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Using recovery, Enable networking so that your disks may mount in rw mode , then Drop to root Shell.

In this terminal enter the following commands - one at a time per line:

Code:

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get upgrade 

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get -f install 

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Now reboot

Code:

 sudo shutdown -r now
Faizan Akram Dar
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