Already broken it!

**al_kaholik** · August 30th, 2008

Hi,

Completely new to linux and have tried to do some tweaks to speed up my Uuntu 8.4 install.

I've changed the concurrency setting to "shell" but seem to have messed it up. The GUI will now not boot.

I was using the command sudo nano -w /etc/init.d/rc in a terminal window, but now trying to fix it from the command line am unable using the same method. I keep getting an error writing...:Read-only file system.

Have a hosed it already or is there a way to fix this?

Thanks all.

Al

**Nepherte** · August 30th, 2008

A shell is more of a synonym for terminal console. So having no gui is in this case normal behaviour. This should work to fix the permission:

Code:

sudo nano -w /etc/init.d/rc

**eru777** · August 30th, 2008

Don't fix it if it ain't broke .

**al_kaholik** · August 30th, 2008

Originally Posted by Nepherte

A shell is more of a synonym for terminal console. So having no gui is in this case normal behaviour. This should work to fix the permission:

Code:

sudo nano -w /etc/init.d/rc

Using this command just flags up the same error message that the file system is read only

**bumanie** · August 30th, 2008

Post the output of

cat /etc/fstab

**cryptk** · August 30th, 2008

also, the output of this may help a little as well...

Code:

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

**al_kaholik** · September 1st, 2008

Now fixed this by doing a clean install of Ubuntu - however am now having graphics issues on my webbook

**Alan Bell** · September 1st, 2008

Hi,
the graphics issue can be fixed by editing your xorg.conf file and setting the screen resolution to 1024x600. More details and an xorg.conf you can download are available here on the webbook blog

Alan.