BenFischer
January 4th, 2009, 12:57 AM
The other day I installed a few updates, and then firefox froze on me. So I shutdown the computer and got sent to the recovery menu. I selected fix xserver, and then boot normally. Since then I have not been able to get my graphical display working.
I don't know if one of the updates messed up gnome, or if using fix x server was responsible. I've done a lot of searching and the most common solution was people reinstalling their OS... I would really perfer not to take that route. How can I troubleshoot this problem to something more specific?
Here are a few of the things I've tried so far.
When I load the OS (Ubuntu 8.04.1 Kernel 2.6.24-22-generic) I have to change my console to see anything, and I encounter this.
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Loading, please wait...
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/02a8589e-2006-4177-ab27-c643188ee718) = sda7(8,7)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/02a8589e-2006-4177-ab27-c643188ee718
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
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(This was apperently a common problem in fiesty, but not so much in heron. I'm running heron though..)
Then I can log at any of the first six consoles, but not the graphical one, ctrl alt F7 does nothing. When I try running gdm at the command line I get this:
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gdm: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_signal_accumulator_true_handled
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startx gives me my /var/log/xorg.0.log file as an error message.
I don't know if one of the updates messed up gnome, or if using fix x server was responsible. I've done a lot of searching and the most common solution was people reinstalling their OS... I would really perfer not to take that route. How can I troubleshoot this problem to something more specific?
Here are a few of the things I've tried so far.
When I load the OS (Ubuntu 8.04.1 Kernel 2.6.24-22-generic) I have to change my console to see anything, and I encounter this.
###
Loading, please wait...
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/02a8589e-2006-4177-ab27-c643188ee718) = sda7(8,7)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/02a8589e-2006-4177-ab27-c643188ee718
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
###
(This was apperently a common problem in fiesty, but not so much in heron. I'm running heron though..)
Then I can log at any of the first six consoles, but not the graphical one, ctrl alt F7 does nothing. When I try running gdm at the command line I get this:
###
gdm: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_signal_accumulator_true_handled
###
startx gives me my /var/log/xorg.0.log file as an error message.