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snorkytheweasel
April 23rd, 2008, 12:24 AM
I boogered up something in Kubuntu 7.10. Now there is a problem related to Xserver (or so the system says). To get the machine useful again quickly: my boss insists upon having a GUI. So I need a good way handle this... fast.

Is there a way to reinstall the OS without losing data?
Is there a one-size-fits-all fix for display issues?
What happens if I save data to a thumb drive that is FAT-formatted?
I ask because I have had problems when

FTPing tarballs to a Windows file server
FTPing back to LINUX and
un-TARing.
The data were frequently corrupted.

Pumalite
April 23rd, 2008, 12:29 AM
Backup & Restore
Take your pick:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p13.htm#overall_plan
http://restore.holonyx.com/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=564836
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p13.htm
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partimage
http://web2linux.blogspot.com/2007/11/apples-time-machine-now-for-linux.html
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/disk-archive-backup-and-restore-using-dar-and-kdardar-frontend.html
http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html

logos34
April 23rd, 2008, 12:32 AM
I boogered up something in Kubuntu 7.10. Now there is a problem related to Xserver (or so the system says). To get the machine useful again quickly: my boss insists upon having a GUI.

Xserver is failing to load at startup? If that's the case, try running the interactive X config tool

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

snorkytheweasel
April 23rd, 2008, 07:02 PM
Xserver is failing to load at startup? If that's the case, try running the interactive X config tool

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Bingo! Thanks ever so much.

Warning to those who would attempt this process:

It is pure, unadulterated HELL. There are many, many arcane questions to sweat through. I finally stopped researching and accepted each default answer ... and hoped.

It turns out that (in my case) the default answers were good enough.

KDE is now happy, my boss is happy, and I am unimaginably happy.

I just might name my first-born "xorg". :)

logos34
April 23rd, 2008, 11:55 PM
Good to hear.

Mark as 'Solved'.