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At the end of the update process, click on the Restart button had no visible effect whatsoever. After waiting 5 to 10 minutes, I decided to reboot the computer manually.

Since then, I rebooted a good dozen times (not with the hope that it would work but with the hope of reading the messages) with the same non-result and the same symptoms:

  1. I get the ASCII text-on-purple

    Ubuntu  13.10
.   .   .   .

    splash screen with these messages:

    * Restoring resolver state...                    [OK]
* Starting crash report submission daemon        [OK]
* Starting CUPS printing spooler/server          [OK]

  2. Everything disappears.

  3. The whole process hangs at a purple screen with the mouse cursor right in the middle. At this point, I'm unable to use the mouse and the keyboard.

Booting from a 12.04 CD works perfectly, Disk Utility says that all my disks are OK and I can mount my main partition without problems.

Something obviously went wrong at the end of the upgrade but I have no idea what. I'd appreciate any pointer.

This is the kind of moment where you really think "Next time, I'll separate my /home partition for sure".

My machine is an aging but working Dell Inspiron 530 with an Intel Core Duo E2160 processor, 2 GHz of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD3650 video card.

Thanks.

(EDIT)

I had a 12.04 CD in a drawer so I spent the whole day doing the upgrade dance:

12.04 -> 12.10 -> 13.04 -> 13.10

Everything went well during the three first steps but I get the same result after the 13.10 upgrade.

George Udosen
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romainl
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Are you using the fglrx-legacy package? Try to remove it and reboot:

  1. Enter tty1 using Ctrl+Alt+F1, and log in.

  2. Run:

    sudo apt-get remove fglrx-legacy
  3. reboot

This may fix your problem, although you won't have the ATI Catalyst driver anymore.

I had a similar problem, and the above method fixed it, thanks to this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/361361/204380

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AlwaysTired
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I got the same problem. I started in security mode, enabled network and then went to console as root. I tried to remove fglrx but it was absent. I guess kubuntu removed it when I said YES to 'want to remove packages no longer used?'

I installed the fglrx package and restarted the computer. Everything was in order.

guntbert
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Adriano Sanches Melo
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