Ubuntu 13.04 not working after boot

Question

My Ubuntu 13.04 is not working after boot since I installed some applications. The graphics used to be better before this happened . My keyboard and my mouse aren't working . I'm using a desktop (Nec power mate). My keyboard and mouse work perfectly on other computers.

Solution

You can give a try to fix your problem using Recovery Mode(Safe Mode) if nothing helped

Hopefully your keyboard works in Recovery Mode.

• When your system starts chose Recovery Mode (2nd option in grub menu).
• From the Menu just go to Grub option, it will give a message like Updating grub will mount your system in read/write mode. Choose yes to mount your system in read/write mode. It will update your grub and will exit from Grub menu.
• chose network option, it may enable your network (it could take some time.).
• Then chose dpkg menu from the list, chose yes for all.

• Finally choose root option and log in. Execute the following commands one after another:

  apt-get autoremove
  apt-get autoclean
  apt-get update
  apt-get -f install
  apt-get dist-upgrade
  apt-get upgrade
  

  Also try to remove those package that you installed and caused such problems if you remember their names. Use these commands to remove:

  apt-get autoremove your_package_name
  apt-get --purge remove your_package_name
  

  Then again repeat above mentioned 6 commands. Then reboot your system and check whether your are able to use Ubuntu or not. Run this command to reboot:

  reboot
  

Comments

[Saurav Kumar]

press ctrl+alt+f1 and check whether you are able to go to tty1 CLI mode. Reply..

[dual booter]

Dude… my keyboard isn't working I can't type anything … helpppp me…

[Saurav Kumar]

Hope in Recovery Mode your keyboard works.. Since the suggestion was so long, I described it as an answer.. Check my answer..

[Boris]

about removing package, you should add *be sure that you are not removing Graphic Card drivers without installing the free drivers sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 xserver-xorg-core sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, otherwise after reboot it would be worst!

[dual booter]

Thanks guys ~ I went into recovery mode and fixed it from there :))

[Saurav Kumar]

then mark this as solved.. so that it would help others..

[Csabi Vidó]

I'm lost at the 2nd 2nd option. ;) screenshots or photos would improve this answer and show everyone what you mean and give reviewers options for improvment.

[Nathan Schwermann]

Sounds like the menu order has moved around a bit since this post. Network is now on the top menu, at least for me. But this post helped me at least get somewhere... thanks!

[Hardik Gajjar]

Still not working in my scenario :(