K_REY_C
July 27th, 2010, 11:22 PM
I’m on a Dell XPS M1530 running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit and I can’t boot into my GUI (and my non-GUI is so pixelated I can’t tell what is going on). I had issues with the plymouth bootsplash here: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1535010 but I’ve got some additional issues now.
I lost some files and used the program scalpel (http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/) to try and recover them. This started a rather long process of drive scanning and ultimately created a new folder on my desktop that housed all of these files... until I ran out of disk space! So I stopped the process and tried to remove some programs and other files - which did not work (my xauth [i think] wouldn’t allow me to get into synaptic).
So I rebooted the computer and had this message: “The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator.” (I found info about that here: http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/) But I return to the problem of not being able to see my non-GUI because it is configured incorrectly. So, I booted into a live environment and cleared off some space. After I tried to reboot via the harddisk I was still unable to boot graphically. However, I was able to boot into a GUI for root. This is everything I know at the moment.
So... does anyone know how I can repair my ability to boot into a GUI (and use my own username instead of root)? I’d also like to repair my non-GUI so that I could see the CL in order to fix problems in the future a little better. I’m also open to any other suggestions or assistance and can provide additional information if it would be helpful.
Really appreciate any help you can provide.
KYLE
I lost some files and used the program scalpel (http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/) to try and recover them. This started a rather long process of drive scanning and ultimately created a new folder on my desktop that housed all of these files... until I ran out of disk space! So I stopped the process and tried to remove some programs and other files - which did not work (my xauth [i think] wouldn’t allow me to get into synaptic).
So I rebooted the computer and had this message: “The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator.” (I found info about that here: http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/) But I return to the problem of not being able to see my non-GUI because it is configured incorrectly. So, I booted into a live environment and cleared off some space. After I tried to reboot via the harddisk I was still unable to boot graphically. However, I was able to boot into a GUI for root. This is everything I know at the moment.
So... does anyone know how I can repair my ability to boot into a GUI (and use my own username instead of root)? I’d also like to repair my non-GUI so that I could see the CL in order to fix problems in the future a little better. I’m also open to any other suggestions or assistance and can provide additional information if it would be helpful.
Really appreciate any help you can provide.
KYLE