I ended up there this morning, and reinstalling Unity fixed the issue. I used Aptitude instead of apt-get though. Thank you for your help! Kat On Sep 26, 2012 12:54 PM, "Joel Longanecker" <joel.longanecker at gmail.com> wrote: > Oh dear, Ubuntu really needs to get their Dist Upgrade process figured out. > > > Can you still do ctrl + alt + f1 to bring up a command line terminal? > > You might be able to get this to work > > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop > sudo apt-get install unity > > > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > >> Yeah, flashdrive, sorry, my mind was in... well, 10 years ago I guess (: >> if you can boot from a flashdrive with enough space you can probably just >> bulk-copy your homedir over to it. >> >> >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote: >> >> >>> I gave up on getting anything resolved tonight, so no worries there. My >>> netbook doesn't have an optical drive, but I think I can do it via a >>> flashdrive. Too tired to dig mine out tonight though. >>> >>> Backing up my data is a good plan. I can set that up tonight to run >>> overnight, if I can get to the utility. >>> >>> K >>> >>> On Sep 26, 2012 12:21 AM, "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >>> Hmm. Not sure about actually getting the installation fixed >>> right this second, but can you make an Ubuntu installation CD >>> and then boot to the live Ubuntu and make sure you can access >>> (and hopefully back up) all your data? You might want to get all >>> your important stuff backed up before you try to fix anything. >>> Worst case scenario, you then reinstall from scratch and restore >>> all your data. >>> >>> Quite likely backing up your homedir would be enough, and then >>> restoring it to a fresh installation. All your >>> settings/bookmarks/whatever should be in there. As worst case >>> scenarios go, it's a pretty good one. >>> >>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi everyone! >>> >>> My name is Kat. :) I decided that tonight would be a >>> good night to upgrade >>> to Ubuntu 12.04. I have done upgrades solo before, >>> and haven't had any >>> issues. The upgrade went fine, right up until the >>> part where I started >>> getting a bunch of notifications that said the >>> packets were already >>> installed. I thought maybe that was normal, clicked >>> ok, and went on with the >>> process. >>> >>> When I rebooted, I had no menu bars, no terminal, >>> and no internet >>> connection! Nooooooooo! I am in *way* over my head, >>> and I really hope one of >>> you fine folks can help me out! I make pretty >>> awesome cookies... >>> >>> Help me, Obi-Wan Tclug! You are my only hope! >>> >>> Fingers crossed, >>> Kat >>> >>> (PS: Acer Aspire One, model # ZG5, 1.5 GB RAM. >>> Nothing fancy.) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -Yaron >>> >>> -- >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> ______________________________**_________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120926/5a02887e/attachment.html>