gnarliprime
April 28th, 2010, 06:26 PM
I had backtrack partition the drive during installation and busted my ubuntu 10.4. The graphics are looking like an old version. when i log in it goes to black screen then goes back to login. There is a message that comes up upon logging in that says something about "install did not configure power correctly" or something of the like. When i go to tty1 i am able to log in and run apps. I reinstalled x server, did apt-get update, upgrade, and dist-upgrade.
Essentially all I am looking to do is grab my files out of the home folder and copy them to my other partition so i can reinstall. Or a fix would work as well. I tried to cp my Documents folder to /home, which did nothing, i got a message that said "cp: omitted /home/cereal/Documents" i also chmod 777 the home folder then tried to copy and i got the same result. Any ideas?
And the home folder is encrypted and i can't figure out how the ecryptfs-private-mount works to be able to retrieve them from the working distro. I get a "this folder was not encrypted correctly" or something to the like when i try.
Essentially all I am looking to do is grab my files out of the home folder and copy them to my other partition so i can reinstall. Or a fix would work as well. I tried to cp my Documents folder to /home, which did nothing, i got a message that said "cp: omitted /home/cereal/Documents" i also chmod 777 the home folder then tried to copy and i got the same result. Any ideas?
And the home folder is encrypted and i can't figure out how the ecryptfs-private-mount works to be able to retrieve them from the working distro. I get a "this folder was not encrypted correctly" or something to the like when i try.