Hi all.
So i'm using kubuntu for several years now (7? can't remember) after switching from another distro that does not exist eny more, and whose name i can't remember.
it's not that i never had problems, but i never registered here, and always managed somehow. however, now i think i'm stumped.
after upgrading to 13.04, i can't login anymore - the silly thing tells me "Failed to load session :Gnome" ", and offer me one option - to log out.
what makes the situation more frustrating is that if i try the "Safe boot" (or whatever it's called) from the grub menu, the thing doesn't go past some intermidiate stage in the boot process (the last lines i see talks about some scsi stuff - can't remember exactly).
in desperation, i left it there overnight, thinking that maybe it does some scrubbing of filesystem record or something, but this is not the case - it's just stuck.
i tried to get to the text login screen - in the past <Alt>F2/F3/F4 would get me to a non-graphic login screen and i could poke around from there, but i can't get it anymore.
maybe someone changed something somewhere - i do not know how to get a basic text-only linux login screen anymore.
the next thing i can think of is to create some USB boot device and boot from there, and try to fix it this way, but:
A) i don;t really know how to do that (i prolly could find how to make USB boot device somewhere over this wonderful internet, but i'd rather not, if there's some magic way to get me to a text login screen), and
B) once i will be able to login, either with USB or by the equivalent of the old <Alt>F2, i do not know how to convince my kubuntu box that it doesn't really need gnome.
am i the only one with this issue? i tried a short web search, but got nada.
peace.
So i'm using kubuntu for several years now (7? can't remember) after switching from another distro that does not exist eny more, and whose name i can't remember.
it's not that i never had problems, but i never registered here, and always managed somehow. however, now i think i'm stumped.
after upgrading to 13.04, i can't login anymore - the silly thing tells me "Failed to load session :Gnome" ", and offer me one option - to log out.
what makes the situation more frustrating is that if i try the "Safe boot" (or whatever it's called) from the grub menu, the thing doesn't go past some intermidiate stage in the boot process (the last lines i see talks about some scsi stuff - can't remember exactly).
in desperation, i left it there overnight, thinking that maybe it does some scrubbing of filesystem record or something, but this is not the case - it's just stuck.
i tried to get to the text login screen - in the past <Alt>F2/F3/F4 would get me to a non-graphic login screen and i could poke around from there, but i can't get it anymore.
maybe someone changed something somewhere - i do not know how to get a basic text-only linux login screen anymore.
the next thing i can think of is to create some USB boot device and boot from there, and try to fix it this way, but:
A) i don;t really know how to do that (i prolly could find how to make USB boot device somewhere over this wonderful internet, but i'd rather not, if there's some magic way to get me to a text login screen), and
B) once i will be able to login, either with USB or by the equivalent of the old <Alt>F2, i do not know how to convince my kubuntu box that it doesn't really need gnome.
am i the only one with this issue? i tried a short web search, but got nada.
peace.
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