Computer suddenly won't boot to desktop

[Crimson_Tider]

That didn't work. It's not showing as a boot option in the BIOS screen.

I've now tried 2 USB drives and an SD card, and none of them are showing up in /media. Do I need to mount them with a command or something?

[nipunshakya]

man, seriously, im running out of ideas.

Now the only thing for me to sugest you is...A Clean Installation from LiveCD. Don't go for pendrive installation this time, coz u saw na how these pendrives respond when in trouble>? hehe

[Crimson_Tider]

man, seriously, im running out of ideas.

Now the only thing for me to sugest you is...A Clean Installation from LiveCD. Don't go for pendrive installation this time, coz u saw na how these pendrives respond when in trouble>? hehe

I'm thinking it has something to do with the mounting process, and I don't know how that works. How do I force it to mount my drive?

[sanderd17]

Why is that restarting of services different for all distros.

Now, this should work:

sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart

or gdm instead of lightdm.

Edit: missed a number of pages, will have to read the whole thread before I post.

[sanderd17]

Ok, your devices are not loading because it's gnome that looks for the auto-mounting. They should appear in /dev though (probably as sdb or sdc).

But back to the lightdm restarting, can you retry to restart the service? Sorry for the problems, but restarting services is different in a lot of OS.

Now, this should work:

sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart

or gdm instead of lightdm.

[Crimson_Tider]

Ok, your devices are not loading because it's gnome that looks for the auto-mounting. They should appear in /dev though (probably as sdb or sdc).

But back to the lightdm restarting, can you retry to restart the service? Sorry for the problems, but restarting services is different in a lot of OS.

Now, this should work:

sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart

or gdm instead of lightdm.

That gives me

sudo: /etc/init.d/lightdm: command not found

[Crimson_Tider]

That gives me

sudo: /etc/init.d/lightdm: command not found

I tried that again, but this time I changed the directory to /etc/init.d and then executed the command. When I did this, I got a totally black screen. Did you read post #11 of this thread? I'm still thinking that might have something to do with what it's doing now.

[Crimson_Tider]

By the way, using gdm instead gave me the same command not found error.

[Crimson_Tider]

It really would be nice if I could access the files on any USB drive. But for some reason I am unable to mount any of the three. I ran lshw -class disk, and it showed all of them. One of them is sdc, so I did

mkdir /mnt/usbdrive0
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/usbdrive0 -t devtmpfs

After that, I did

ls /media

And got

External Hard Drive

But I don't even have an external hard drive connected, and it still isn't showing the USB drive there.

I'm very much a newbie, but that seems really strange to me. Why am I unable to mount and access my USB drive?

[Crimson_Tider]

Anyone?