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title: "Unable to Login After Upgrade to Karmic [Solved]"
description: "This happens when an upgrade is done without removing the non-free graphical drivers, normally Nvidia or ATI cards. Actually."
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# Unable to Login After Upgrade to Karmic [Solved]

> This happens when an upgrade is done without removing the non-free graphical drivers, normally Nvidia or ATI cards. Actually.

This happens when an upgrade is done without removing the non-free graphical drivers, normally **Nvidia or ATI cards.**

Actually before installing you should have disable those drivers, so its crashed now.

**To fix you have three options :**

  1. To boot from live cd (karmic), backup what data you want and do a fresh install.

  2. Follow this, open your terminal after booting from live cd and then :

type this **cat /etc/fstab | grep "/ was on"******

the o/p will be like : # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation

its /dev/sda1 for me might be different for you, not that down

**Assuming its /dev/sda1 the next steps are giving below, replace /dev/sda1 with yours.**

{Copy paste each line or the whole set however you can, to the terminal} ` **sudo mkdir /media/karmic sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/karmic sudo mount -o bind /proc /media/karmic/proc sudo mount -o bind /dev /media/karmic/dev/ sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /media/karmic/etc/resolv.conf sudo chroot /media/karmic apt-get update sudo chroot /media/karmic apt-get upgrade sudo chroot /media/karmic apt-get dist-upgrade** `

3.Drop in the recovery shell with networking and then : ` **sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx sudo aticonfig --initial startx**`

Again from terminal after logging in sudo apt-get update suao apt-get upgrade ``

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