Getting "Server unexpectedly closed network connection"

Question

I created VM by using Jclouds API and by giving the public address in putty login into the VM. I tried to install GUI in VM by giving the below command

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

It is installed but while rebooting the Ubuntu server I am losing internet connection getting message like below:

sudo reboot

Server unexpectedly closed network connection

Then the server won't respond.

Err http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources
  404  Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found
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W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-next/ubuntu/dists  /precise/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-next/ubuntu/dists  /precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-next/ubuntu/dists  /precise/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used   instead.
ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-201:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop  Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Mayukh Nair · Answer 1 · 2014-04-15T16:36:14.623

Try these GUIs on your server:

KDE Plasma Desktop: sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop

XFCE4: sudo apt-get install xfce4

LXDE: sudo apt-get install lxde

GNOME 3: sudo apt-get install gdm

       sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next 

       sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

and then sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-update

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

These will install a vanilla GUI for you ie. the GUI, without any accompanying apps like Amarok and Muon in the case of KDE Plasma Desktop.

Getting "Server unexpectedly closed network connection"

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