I say, even if you don't manage to fix your Ubuntu partition, that doesn't have to stop you from running Linux locally to work on your EIC transition report. Just run a live CD.
Furthermore, using a LiveCD would allow you to access the .bashrc files, to (back them up and) replace them with standard ones to see if that might be the problem, since they're run first every time you log in.
Sounds like you might as well upgrade to the latest distro. That will usually solve problems like that for me, and they're always rolling out new little features which I really like. For example, I'm running Karmic, and now Nautilus, when you're accessing network files, will pop up a dialog saying it's working on it, and allow you to cancel (a feature I'd really like to see in Windows).
Alternatively, it sounds like an X issue, as if the X server is crashing and restarting (like ctrl-alt-backspace). There's a command-line parameter (do you have command line access with ctrl-alt-F1?) which gets dpkg to reinitialize the X-server to the default values:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
This saved my ass when I was updating my graphics driver in the (unsuccessful) hope of improving Linux graphics support.
I'm home all day, puttering in C++, if you think I might be able to help.
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Your usage of the present tense tells me that the problem is still ongoing.
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Alternatively, it sounds like an X issue, as if the X server is crashing and restarting (like ctrl-alt-backspace). There's a command-line parameter (do you have command line access with ctrl-alt-F1?) which gets dpkg to reinitialize the X-server to the default values:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
This saved my ass when I was updating my graphics driver in the (unsuccessful) hope of improving Linux graphics support.
I'm home all day, puttering in C++, if you think I might be able to help.
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