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I get a blank screen on boot since updating my graphics driver. The wireless indicator is on and working but the other elements of the desktop are missing and I can't do anything. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

My system is HP Pavillion dm4 Processor: Intel (R) Core (TM) i3-2310M CPU 2.10GHz

Zanna
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  • I have tried running Terminal ctrl+alt+T, f1, f7, f8, none of them is taking me to terminal – FirmTech Apr 24 '15 at 14:16
  • Can you provide more information? Like the GPU and the driver? Can you log in before it goes blank? More details are always better than fewer. – Evan T Apr 24 '15 at 14:16
  • Graphics driver is intel. no options for login in. it usually boots straight to desktop – FirmTech Apr 24 '15 at 14:24
  • See section 3: https://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it/162078#162078 – Evan T Apr 24 '15 at 14:34
  • I have followed the thread you sent and tried the options there but not avail. – FirmTech Apr 27 '15 at 10:17

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I finally get it to work by reinstalling the ubuntu-desktop package. Here is what i did:

  1. Booted into recovery mode with the most recent kernel (something like Ubuntu with Linux 3.2.0-25-generic-pae (recovery mode))
  2. After the recovery mode has finished loading the recovery options, I chose to boot with networking on and then selected Drop to root shell prompt

  3. I entered the command 

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
  4. I rebooted

And bingo that did it. Thanks to this article too

Zanna
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If you have another machine connected to the same network, try to connect to the machine, check the logs /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You might need to change the graphics the acceleration to SNA/EXA/UXA. Unfortunatelly, I can't give you a valid config file, because my HDD died a few days ago.

Pavol Polacko
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