9.04 DISASTER - please help

[lbravo]

I upgraded from 8.01. It first had me upgrade to 8.04. The NVIDEA graphics card only worked in low res, but I didn't worry too much about it and went on with the 9.04 upgrade as offered. After 35 hours worth of downloading, and several lost connections, false starts and restarts, it installed.

It rebooted and gave me a cool login screen. It came up, wireless worked, all seemed good.

I rebooted. Now it goes through grub and everything looks fine. When it gets to the point that it should load the ubuntu logo, it hangs, and I get a blinking cursor. I've rebooted over and over - and tried the other options. On the others it drops me to a terminal prompt, which I'm not terribly uncomfortable with -- but I'd like for X windows to come back.

Any suggestions? I'd appreciate them asap before I get angry and trash everything.

Thanks,
Lori

[Garrovick]

Just based on my experience as an uneducated Ubuntu new user, my first download was corrupt. It installed and 9.04 looked good, but it was corrupt system wise.

You might also, like me, have a corrupt iso file. That was an idea suggested to me which turned out to be true.

I fear a re-download and fresh reinstall is the only option.

Just talking out loud.

[jackal_twister]

I have the same problem I cant install the 18o version drivers, everytim i reboot i have to reconfigure xserver, I cant use 3d desktop.

There doesnt seem to be any solutions online

Anyone with any solutions please help

[lbravo]

I really - really don't want to reinstall. Didn't back up... this will suck.:frown:

I'm groveling now. Any suggestions on what to type in when it drops to BusyBox to get it to re-download the upgrade?

Thanks in advance,

Lori

[Sef]

I really - really don't want to reinstall. Didn't back up... this will suck.:frown:

Do you have a usb key or an extra hard drive that you can back up to?

[lbravo]

Do you have a usb key or an extra hard drive that you can back up to?

Yes, but I can't see the drive. It won't mount using a boot CD.

Look at the ugly messages reported by dmesg:


[ 2245.797333] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2245.816500] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input12
[ 2245.853691] input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2
[ 3266.991127] EXT3-fs error (device sda6): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 224 not in group (block 65569152)!
[ 3266.994471] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
[ 3275.165734] EXT3-fs error (device sda6): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 224 not in group (block 65569152)!
[ 3275.368782] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
[ 3297.219210] EXT3-fs error (device sda6): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 224 not in group (block 65569152)!
[ 3297.429030] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
[ 3297.457018] EXT3-fs error (device sda6): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 224 not in group (block 65569152)!
[ 3297.457556] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
[ 3297.497620] EXT3-fs error (device sda6): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 224 not in group (block 65569152)!
[ 3297.500305] EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!


Any ideas on what's happened or how to get my /home dir off of the drive before I format and reinstall from scratch?

L

[lbravo]

fsck -f

Does it all.

[Greevous]

I'm having a problem now with mounting my external USB drive. The only way I've been able to see it at all is by a live cd I had. Here's the output of dmesg | tail:


[fedora@localhost ~]$ dmesg | tail
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
EXT3-fs error (device sdf1): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 128 not in group (block 317096336)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdf] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
EXT3-fs error (device sdf1): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 128 not in group (block 849756544)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!

[Meow27]

does the graphics work with the intel onboard card?

[lbravo]

does the graphics work with the intel onboard card?

What I've got is an Nvidia geForce 8700... the native display is 1900xsomething or other... it won't display that, but it will go to 1400xsomething or other. I fought graphics for a while, but have settled with what I'm getting... it's pretty good.

I'm running it on a Dell XPS M1730 (the big boy). Hardy installed easily and ran well for months... but I've GOT to have the latest thing - so I put myself through sheer torture since Friday. Finally, most everything's up and running. There's some audio issues with my bluetooth headset, but nothing that can't be overcome. Hope I'm happy for another 10 months or so.

:guitar: