awkward42
November 24th, 2008, 05:17 PM
Upgrading my main computer (AMD 64 bit) from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, everything was going fine until I was asked to reboot.
The system went through a disk check, which found something that needed fixing after about 30 minutes of check (5 seconds wasn't enough to read a screenfull of information before the system auto-restarted)
After this the system got as far as displaying the black and grey swirly background of the login screen, but is not displaying anything on this background at all. I only know it is the login background from having previously upgraded my Intel centrino 32-bit laptop without a hitch.
I've tried restarting X via ctrl+alt+backspace but this just gets me to the same position. ctrl+alt+del does nothing.
I can ctrl+alt+F1 to a terminal and do everything in there that I know how to do in a terminal. I've done sudo shutdown -r now in here to restart the machine and gone through three normal boots and a recovery boot, all getting to the backdrop and no further.
The recovery console dpkg didn't find anything missing or in need of repair, but did remove to obsolete linux-headers packages. None of this has got me beyond the background.
all my data appears fine on the hdd. I can ssh to a remote server from the ctrl+alt+F1 terminal, so the network is working.
It appears to be just an X problem, but I'm no expert.
The important hardware specs are at http://sucs.org/~cmckenna/newpc although the case and monitor are different, and it's also running a floppy drive, a second dvd-rw and a cd-rw drive that I inherited.
All help appreciated!
Chris
The system went through a disk check, which found something that needed fixing after about 30 minutes of check (5 seconds wasn't enough to read a screenfull of information before the system auto-restarted)
After this the system got as far as displaying the black and grey swirly background of the login screen, but is not displaying anything on this background at all. I only know it is the login background from having previously upgraded my Intel centrino 32-bit laptop without a hitch.
I've tried restarting X via ctrl+alt+backspace but this just gets me to the same position. ctrl+alt+del does nothing.
I can ctrl+alt+F1 to a terminal and do everything in there that I know how to do in a terminal. I've done sudo shutdown -r now in here to restart the machine and gone through three normal boots and a recovery boot, all getting to the backdrop and no further.
The recovery console dpkg didn't find anything missing or in need of repair, but did remove to obsolete linux-headers packages. None of this has got me beyond the background.
all my data appears fine on the hdd. I can ssh to a remote server from the ctrl+alt+F1 terminal, so the network is working.
It appears to be just an X problem, but I'm no expert.
The important hardware specs are at http://sucs.org/~cmckenna/newpc although the case and monitor are different, and it's also running a floppy drive, a second dvd-rw and a cd-rw drive that I inherited.
All help appreciated!
Chris