Need help with Ubuntu . . .

[A Person]

Good Day . . .

I joined this list a few weeks ago prior to a holiday. This is my first 
message.

To be quite honest, I encountered the same problems as you. I upgraded 
Kubuntu 6.10 to 7.04. It did not work. My problem was an unreliably slow 
high speed connection and almost 1+ gb of downloaded data.

After two days of "connection timed out" I finally pulled the plug and 
downloaded the Kubuntu 7.04 iso and reinstalled along with a backup of 
my personal files. My problems were almost duplicated when I tried to 
apt-get ubuntu-desktop. It was very large and slow but it finally worked.

This may be for you. This is not going to be a problem that will repeat 
itself in the future so do not expend much time and effort in finding a 
solution. Download an iso and reinstall after backing up your personal 
data. It worked for me. I do not think that I am going to upgrade 6.10 
to 7.04 ever again.

As far as diagnosing the issue is concerned, the downloaded files have 
to be assumed to be good since you tried it three times. An upgrade does 
not usually affect configuration files. If after three tries the problem 
still exists then it is probably a bad or incompatible config file ( or 
a hardware problem or . . . ).

The first file that may be the problem is menu.lst in /boot/grub. If an 
error occurs here then the loading will fail completely without any 
screen echoing. 7.04 probably has a newer OS version so the possibility 
of problems here does exist.

Let me know if you want to try to correct this problem and I will post 
my menu.lst file. Mount your / partition using a live cd and compare my 
file to yours and correct/create/copy and reboot and good luck.

If the problem still exists then start over with a clean install because 
the problem could be one of thousands of kernel config files.

Hope this has helped you. I am working in isolation so my techniques may 
be rough but they work for me.

Good Luck . . .

Paul