OhBooHooTu
August 10th, 2009, 08:43 AM
Quick history -
Old, working system had 8.1 running from random partitions on two disks. (unused Windows and Mepis on other partitions) One started making bearing noise, so time to consolidate.
New disk, using gparted put Ubuntu root on sdb1, created extended partition for swap and /home. It booted into this config, but other drives were still in the system and wanted to clean up, so started messing with fstab. Apparent mistake.
New fstab mounts sdb1 as /, sdb5 as swap and sdb6 as /home.
I cycle power, the boot starts, Ubuntu splash screen shows, text continues to scroll, then dumps to a text/blue screen with
"Could not start the X Server (your graphical environment) due to some internal error. Please contact your system administrator or check your syslog to diagnose. In the meantime, this display will be disable. Please restart GDM when the problem is corrected."
Then it drops to command line login which generally works (I can get in).
As far as I can tell, /var/log/syslog was last written a week ago, so has nothing useful (did I somehow turn it off?)
I am running 8.10 2.6.27.14 on a generic Intel DuoCore thing.
How do I start to troubleshoot this?
My experience - persistent Ubuntu user, no code knowledge. I can follow linux directions, but have little knowledge of what I am doing.
OBTW, I am able to still run from a cd I built with remastersys from the working system.
Help!!!
thanks
Old, working system had 8.1 running from random partitions on two disks. (unused Windows and Mepis on other partitions) One started making bearing noise, so time to consolidate.
New disk, using gparted put Ubuntu root on sdb1, created extended partition for swap and /home. It booted into this config, but other drives were still in the system and wanted to clean up, so started messing with fstab. Apparent mistake.
New fstab mounts sdb1 as /, sdb5 as swap and sdb6 as /home.
I cycle power, the boot starts, Ubuntu splash screen shows, text continues to scroll, then dumps to a text/blue screen with
"Could not start the X Server (your graphical environment) due to some internal error. Please contact your system administrator or check your syslog to diagnose. In the meantime, this display will be disable. Please restart GDM when the problem is corrected."
Then it drops to command line login which generally works (I can get in).
As far as I can tell, /var/log/syslog was last written a week ago, so has nothing useful (did I somehow turn it off?)
I am running 8.10 2.6.27.14 on a generic Intel DuoCore thing.
How do I start to troubleshoot this?
My experience - persistent Ubuntu user, no code knowledge. I can follow linux directions, but have little knowledge of what I am doing.
OBTW, I am able to still run from a cd I built with remastersys from the working system.
Help!!!
thanks