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I am having an issue with 14.04.

It was installed a couple days ago, however after the first cold restart, the issue arises.

I can get to the GRUB, then to login, but then I am stuck with the desktop background only.

This is similar to other threads, but the difference is that I cannot access terminal at all.

Pressing ctrl + alt + f(?) only yields a bright pink or dark purple screen with no text.

Thank You for the Help!

User23
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With caution you can access terminal by going to "advance options for ubuntu" at grub, select the top most or only "ubuntu, with linux 3.x.x... generic (recovery mode)" and when in the recovery menu select "Drop to root Terminal."

user250155
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I had a similar issue after upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 in xubuntu.

After selecting Ubuntu in GRUB I would be stuck on the splash screen that is displayed before the login screen.

I was able to boot into single user mode and get access to the terminal by doing the following:

  1. While in GRUB I would move the selector over Ubuntu
  2. Press 'e'
  3. Move the cursor down to the "linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic root=UUID...." line
  4. Append the word " single" at the end of this line
  5. Press F10
  6. You will now be in a terminal with root access (be careful)
pl0x
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