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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 01, 2015 at 1:35 PM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "Jan Henkins" <jan@henkins.za.net><br/>
<b>To:</b> "The mailing list for the Greater London Linux User Group" <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GLLUG] booting problem</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Hello Steve,<br/>
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On 2015-12-01 09:45, steve taylor wrote:<br/>
> hi all,<br/>
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> i have a problem with my system. Yesterday i spent all day messing<br/>
> around with vmware and virtualbox and now my system won't boot<br/>
> properly. It just hangs. Either it is a coincidence, or it is<br/>
> something to do with them.<br/>
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Which version/variant of VMWare did you install?</div>
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<div name="quoted-content">the latest VMware player<br/>
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> I use Mint 17.<br/>
> I can use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a console but what do I do then?<br/>
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It seems that your desktop system got blatted in some way. Could you<br/>
please fo the following command, and send us the output? This assumes<br/>
that you are using Cinnamon as your default desktop. If not, substitute<br/>
"gnome" for "cinnamon".<br/>
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dpkg -l | grep cinnamon</div>
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<div name="quoted-content">I am running xfce so used that instead</div>
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> I don't really want to reinstall the system.<br/>
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You still might have to, which is not really such a hassle provided you<br/>
have a seperate /home partition. To advise on this, send us the output<br/>
of:<br/>
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cat /etc/fstab</div>
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Regards,<br/>
Jan Henkins<br/>
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Steve</div>
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