Chestna
October 15th, 2009, 04:23 PM
(Using LiveCD at the moment)
Hi! I've been happily using Ubuntu 9.10 on my 5-year-old Dell desktop for just over a month. I've learned some cool stuff by lurking and searching on these forums and other Linux websites.
Now I've screwed something up.
I had tried KDE for a while to get the feel of Kubuntu, and then went back to my Gnome desktop. I discovered I still had the KDM as my default desktop manager and I wanted to change it. Somewhere I read that I just needed to edit etc/X11/default-display-manager to read
/usr/bin/gdm (instead of kdm) and that's what I did.
When I rebooted, I saw this (or something like it - I copied by hand, tried to be as accurate as possible):
Boot from (hd0,0) ext3dc1c3da9-a9cd-4d6a-80df-3ffba9d899d
Starting up...
Loading, please wait
19+0 records in
19+0 records out
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/2b414fac-35f3-47bd-8552-97a2be2782fc) = dev (8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/2b414fac-35f3-47bd-8552-97a2be2782fc
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
*Checking battery state...
[OK]
Ubuntu 9.04 chestna-desktop tty1
After that, the screen doesn't respond to anything I do, except when I go to Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3-F6)
Then I am prompted for my login and password.
After I do that, the screen does not respond to anything I do - except for when I press enter, and it does that "chestna@chestna-desktop" thing.
Is there no other option besides backing up everything and reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch?
Hi! I've been happily using Ubuntu 9.10 on my 5-year-old Dell desktop for just over a month. I've learned some cool stuff by lurking and searching on these forums and other Linux websites.
Now I've screwed something up.
I had tried KDE for a while to get the feel of Kubuntu, and then went back to my Gnome desktop. I discovered I still had the KDM as my default desktop manager and I wanted to change it. Somewhere I read that I just needed to edit etc/X11/default-display-manager to read
/usr/bin/gdm (instead of kdm) and that's what I did.
When I rebooted, I saw this (or something like it - I copied by hand, tried to be as accurate as possible):
Boot from (hd0,0) ext3dc1c3da9-a9cd-4d6a-80df-3ffba9d899d
Starting up...
Loading, please wait
19+0 records in
19+0 records out
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/2b414fac-35f3-47bd-8552-97a2be2782fc) = dev (8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/2b414fac-35f3-47bd-8552-97a2be2782fc
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
*Checking battery state...
[OK]
Ubuntu 9.04 chestna-desktop tty1
After that, the screen doesn't respond to anything I do, except when I go to Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3-F6)
Then I am prompted for my login and password.
After I do that, the screen does not respond to anything I do - except for when I press enter, and it does that "chestna@chestna-desktop" thing.
Is there no other option besides backing up everything and reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch?