Hi
everyone,
A friend of mine running
Peppermint Six 32-bit version has just called me with a problem that I would like to help him fix: especially since he does not know that much about
Linux and because
I am the person who convinced him to move to
Linux, ditch Micro$oft completely and then even installed
Peppermint Six on his only computer.
I taught him how to use the
Synaptic package manager for keeping his machine up-to-date. Everything has been running absolutely fine -- until he decided to try some clean-up of his installation. He assured me that all he did was open
Synaptic (he always does this as I do: with the
Status button on the left depressed) click on the item
Not installed (residual config), and then he performed a
Mark for Complete Removal and removed
everything that was there, since it said that none of it was installed anyway and under the column named
Installed Version nothing was listed.
Now he cannot get into his login screen, similar to
this forum posting. Unfortunately, although in this posting
PCNetSpec explains the
why part, the question remains: how to go about reviving the installation?
My friend says that after leaving the
GRUB screen, the
Peppermint Six splash bar goes as normal to become completely red, then the screen goes black and that's the end.
I hope to get an explanation here so that I can either tell him via telephone how to solve this, or I will drive to where he lives (unfortunately rather far away) and perform the steps for him.
So ... can someone give me the solution? We would prefer to avoid a re-installation of the system if at all possible.
BTW, I almost forgot: I did note some items after doing his installation: his
graphics card is an old
AMD/ATI RV610 Radeon HD 2400 Pro and he is (was) using the
ati and
radeon drivers from the default install (no proprietary drivers).
Regards,
-- Slim