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Hi, Today when I started my Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop, it was stuck at where the mouse is like a rotating circle for hours. Restart doesn't help. My Ubuntu ...
  1. 01-23-2009 #1
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    Cannot Start Ubuntu 8.10

    Hi,
    Today when I started my Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop, it was stuck at where the mouse is like a rotating circle for hours. Restart doesn't help.

    My Ubuntu was just installed last week. Before last use, everything is fine. Last time I installed some packages for videos playing, programmed with some C++ code and read some documents and webpages. It gradually became slower and slower. Eventually it didn't respond to my clicking to open a text file before I decided to shut it down and restart it over again.

    Could someone give me some advice? Thanks in advance!
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    Can you boot using the recovery mode from Grub?
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    Yes, I did enter the recovery mode though I am not sure if it is Grub. What is the next to do?
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    When does your mouse "circle" for hours?

    At the login screen?

    Right before the login screen displays?
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    Sounds like it could be some sort of 'x" problem.

    What kind of graphics card do you have?

    I haven't had too many problems with x, so I haven't had to "fix" it that many times.

    What kind of computer setup are you running?

    My recommendation would be to boot into recovery mode, and when it gives you the list of options, select "Repair X".

    It will always save your xorg.conf file, incase you have a really custom setup.
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    I've tried all the options including repair X. Didn't help.
    My graphics card is SiS M760GX. My laptop is Aspire 5000.
    Before today, everything is smooth with start-up since installation last week.
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    Try this.

    Reboot into Recovery, and then type "startx"

    Tell me what happens?
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    I got two error message windows, the system seems freezed at this point and I cannot use mouse or keyboard. The message window on the top says "Nautilus cannot be used now, due to an unexpected error". The one below is hidden by the top one.
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    Sounds like something is corrupted or messed up with Nautilus.

    Have you tried apt-get update and apt-get upgrade?

    I'm not too familiar with gnome. Perhaps someone else who is a gnome guru can help you.
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