[SOLVED] Mythbuntu 8.04 won't boot into OS

[CoNMaN]

Have had this installed and working for a month now. I don't really know how to trouble shoot linux.

Today I went to turn on the box. It seems to boot, the mythbuntu bar makes it all the way across, then just black screen.

I can ssh into it, but I don't know what to do once in there. Any ideas?

so it seems that the gui isn't loading.


--added--

I have ran recovery mode, (pressed esc during grub boot) ran xfix, popped me back to the menu, did the resume normal boot, still went to blank black screen.

Also when I boot off the CD, as soon as it would go into the GUI, my screen goes blank. No Cursor, no nothing.

What is the program that boots the gui called? xorg? gnome?

[CoNMaN]

My problem seems similar to This Post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=822559&highlight=video+gui). I will try a monitor after work today

I am running the open-source NVIDIA driver.

[CoNMaN]

So for some reason my xorg.conf switched on its own.
It changed to


# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection



but I found a file in there maybe a backup the system made which was correct and just did a mv to it on top of the messed up version.


hope this helps someone