[vox-tech] boot failure with KDE

[Thomas Johnston]

I still can't boot normally.  I tried uninstalling (sudo aptitude
remove nvidia-current) and reinstalling the nvidia drivers.  That
didn't change anything.  I tried purging nvidia.  That didn't work.  I
even tried uninstalling and reinstalling xorg to no avail.  In fact,
the problem is a little worse now.  I can boot to the login screen and
if I try to login it almost immediately takes me back to the same
login screen.  The only way to get to a terminal now is to boot into
recovery mode from GRUB.

thomas

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Tony Cratz <cratz at hematite.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 12:20 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
>> I noticed in yesterday's instructions to Hai someone mentioned using a
>> Live CD.  I downloaded and burned Lucid 64 bit from Kubuntu.org and
>> booted from the Live CD.  I opened konsole and typed:
>>
>> sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda1 and it gives the following:
>> 430625  inodes used (2.94%)
>> 615 non-contiguous files (0.1%)
>> 452 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
>> # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
>> Extent depth histogram: 410276/301
>> 46160360 blocks used (78.82%)
>> 0 bad blocks
>> 5 large files
>>
>> 359758 regular files
>> 45444 directories
>> 60 character device files
>> 26 block device files
>> 0 fifos
>> 607 links
>> 25327 symbolic links (19951 fast symbolic links)
>> 1 socket
>> ___________
>> 431223 files
>
>
>        Good, the partition should now be clean. You should be able
>        to boot up normally if this was the only problem. Otherwise
>        you may have issues where you might need to install the
>        missing driver. This can be done from the failsafe login.
>
>
>                                                        Tony
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