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Help! My system is down
Name: Chxta Date: May 14, 2006 at 00:20:09 Pacific OS: Ubuntu Linux 5.04 CPU/Ram: 1.4GHz/192MB Product: Dell
Comment:
I tried upgrading from Ubuntu Hoary to Dapper and now my system has hung. I get this message when I try to boot:
I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?
Then the system hangs. Even the keyboard doesn't respond. What do I do?
Name: MikeAtVillage Date: May 15, 2006 at 01:21:09 Pacific
Reply:
You could try running setupx from the command prompt.
HTH
Mike
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Response Number 2
Name: Chxta Date: May 15, 2006 at 05:49:14 Pacific
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How do I get there? Like I said, my keyboard freezes. Is there a key I press before the system boots?
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: May 16, 2006 at 02:40:48 Pacific
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At the boot prompt you want to boot into runlevel 3 (text only). Are you using grub or lilo? You want to try and add a 3 to the command line to boot.
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Response Number 4
Name: Chxta Date: May 16, 2006 at 04:37:51 Pacific
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I'm using Grub.
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Response Number 5
Name: Chxta Date: May 16, 2006 at 04:55:11 Pacific
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I think I'll download XFCE and install it...
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Response Number 6
Name: 3Dave Date: May 17, 2006 at 05:39:09 Pacific
Reply:
Er...if your X server is broken you wont be able to run xfce either.
At the grub prompt press "e" to edit the command and add a "3" to the end of the line. Then press "b" to boot. This should get you into text mode. From there run something like xorgconfig to fix your X server and test it with startx.
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