General :: Screwed Up Gdm AND Kdm - Can't Even Get Into A Console?
Mar 19, 2010
Running Ubuntu 9.10. I was messing around with gdm/kdm and now BOTH of them are screwed up. It boots into "rescue" mode but none of the options work...not even droping into a console (the screen just goes black) I've also tried pressing CTL+ALT+F[1-9] ...still can't get a console. I AM, however, able to boot from the live CD and mount /dev/sda1 and...
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root@livecd# chroot /mnt
Unfortunately...
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root@chroot# dpkg-reconfigure gdm
Doesn't work...SO I tried using apt-get to reinstall gdm...the only problem is when I try getting the network up in the chroot enviroment I get an error saying.
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Apr 29, 2011
I updated my version of ubuntu to 11.04 I think and installed my ati drivers. Then tried to change some settings, rebooted and when I try to log in it acts like it will but exits back to the loging. How can I access console? Alt+Shift+F1 is not taking me there..
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Sep 15, 2010
Is it possible to let users create the directory or files but only user "yat" can delete them.suppose other users are geller ross joe from group FH , who have privileges. whenever these users create file or dir , they should not able delete it.BottomLine: Group users should create file but should not be able to delete them.By the way using sgid bit didnt help .
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Mar 14, 2010
My new computer loads the i915 video driver by default, which seems to disable normal VGA VESA and FB modes.When I use an svgalib client in VESA mode the screen gets screwed up. I can't recover. I have tried savetextmode & textmode, but those don't help. Everything else continues to work. I have to shutdown and restart to restore a normal screen mode.
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Aug 24, 2011
I just installed nVidia GT440 w/ NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-280.13.run driver on my Scientific Linux on two of my workstation and one of workstation sound disappeared. Both workstations are identical though in terms of hardware and OS (Scientific Linux).
I'm not really sure where to look, but here is dmesg from workstation where sound isn't working:[URL]..whenever I go to System -> Preference -> Sound -> Output on broken workstation I only see "HDA NVidia Digital Stereo (HDMI)" and my old/onboard sound card is missing.
I actually did roll out of same Video Card to more then just 2 workstation, I did that to a 5. Only 2 of them sound working as expected. 1 of them didn't even needed to install nVidia drivers but that workstation running slightly newer OS version 6.1 instead of rest 6.0, so I'm back to where I started it ... clueless ;(
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Feb 11, 2011
This is the hard way to learn when you MUST use visudo. That's right. I did something stupid like:Quote:$ sudo vi /etc/sudoersand now have:Quote:
$ sudo
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 79 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 79
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Sep 8, 2010
How can I start a program from tty1 console text mode to be executed in tty2 console text mode? Actualy I would like to start a program (chat client cli program) in tty8 automaticaly when linux PC boots.
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Jul 19, 2010
My desktop is screwed and there is no button to close my session and open a new session with a working desktop. How can I do that?
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Feb 5, 2011
Is there a way to fix this. I know once a theme is applied it's suppose to take affect on everything. But, my folders (and the stuff that you see below, folders and icons etc..) stay the same no matter what theme I use
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Jun 28, 2011
At first, all seemed normal on the gnome-terminal except for the scroll bar but my theme settings don't seem to have changed. I guess that's because, they haven't as I can see in programs like iceweasel where all is normal.I am using testing/wheezy. I tried removing /home/deniz/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal and restarting my computer but that did not work. Did an update screw things up or what? How do I bring things back to normal?
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Apr 16, 2011
Suddenly my mouse is all screwed up: a single click registers as two clicks - one for the press and one more for the release, or at least looks like that, but most of the time i click once and it treats it as two distinct clicks. i tried to fix it in the "configure desktop" but no go.. It's v11.3., kde4
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Feb 17, 2010
So, I ran an apt-get update, and got these error messages:
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Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
[code]....
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Jun 17, 2010
I have a older dell inspiron laptop running xubuntu 9.10. It has run fine for quite a while. I recently hooked it up to my plasma tv to watch some some movies and now it crashes when I try to log in. The process I used to hook it to the TV was: connect VGA cable then boot into the external monitor, then shutdown. I have done this in the past with other laptops and it always went back to normal when I boot without the VGA cord attached.
What happens now is I try to log in then the screen flashes and sends me back to the login screen. One more thing to add, I didn't have to use the login screen prior to this problem, it was set for auto-login.How can I fix this? I can get to the terminal via CTRL + F2 and via SSH.
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Sep 14, 2010
I actually wanted to create partitions on my usbstick, but instead I fdisked new partitions onto my boot + datadrive. It is still running. Is there a chance I can recover that?
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Oct 19, 2010
I plugged in a second monitor to my new Meerkat installation and xorg stopped working.
When I took the monitor away it still wouldn't work, so I tried entering with safe graphics and that wouldn't work.
I uninstalled xorg and reinstalled and ran the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but still no luck.
I have tried reverting the vesa driver but it still won't work. The screen flashes like it's trying but just gives up.
I don't know what to do now except reinstall the partition.
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Dec 3, 2010
This hasn't happened to me before, but I develop for the Android platform and (perhaps needless to say) I really need to be able to debug on a real device. On past installs, my device was recognized automatically and debugging was as easy as checking "debug" in the Android's settings, but now (after updating to Maverick from Lucid) the phone registers with adb as?It mentions some necessary tasks for set-up on Ubuntu, but only mentions this process for Dapper/Gutsy/Hardy. Is there any personal experience out there that can confirm that this works and/or is necessary on Maverick?
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May 20, 2011
I have a HP ZE2000 laptop with an ATI XPress 200M graphics card that worked great with 10.04, but when I upgraded to the 11.04 the screen is now all screwed up and I cannot figure out what happened. I even downloaded the .iso and booted up on the LiveCD and it is still screwed up. I am assuming something is screwed up in the graphics setting, but how do you change it if you cannot see it?
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Jul 3, 2011
I'm back on my iPad because I deleted the partitions and this is what came up
Error: no such partition
Grub rescue> _
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Sep 1, 2011
So I (being an idiot) screwed up my boot process. While tinkering around with random things I was reading here and there, trying to get my Burg and Plymouth resolutions to look normal, I think I tried something, not realizing that it was intended for intel graphics (I am running ati). During boot I get a "FATAL; Error inserting i915 (/lib/modules/2.6.38-10-generic/kernel/drivers/gou/drm/i915/i915.ko): No such device
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Sep 1, 2011
I have 2x 2TB drives for data storage in my system. I placed both drives in a volume group and made 1 big 4TB partition on it. I made it ext4 and mounted it in my Ubuntu Server environment and used it for a while without any problems. Just now I wanted to work a little with Windows 7 and I installed it on a separate hard drive (a 500GB one). This went fine but the (f***ing!) Windows 7 installer automatically made a 100MB system reserved partition on one of the 2TB drives (because the freaking MS OS saw them as unallocated space). That basically scewed up the volume group.
Running vgchange -ay gives an error that device with UUID (..) couln't be found. Running vgchange -ay --partial works and activates my volume group as read only. When I try to mount my logical volume inside that volume group mount gives the error that I need to specify the file system. When I do so with mount -t ext4 it returns the error that it's the wrong file system. Is there a way for me to fully restore my volume group? Or a way to mount what's left of it so that I can backup as much data as possible?
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Mar 11, 2011
As you can see, in the virtual machine, the colours work fine. In Linux, I think I'm on an acid trip.
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May 31, 2011
So I was following the majority of this guideand sometime last night my computer went awry. First all my icons went blank, and I was unable to open anything. I had to reboot, and upon trying to log back in as a user I got an error /bin/bash: Command not found. I tried removing the user completely and starting from scratch but I am unable to remove the /home/user/.bash_history file. I even tried with root. I'm at a complete loss, confused. I know I did have to chomd 644 the entire /etc directory because I was getting some permission errors there.
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Jan 28, 2010
Vista won't start but Ubuntu will, all her documents are gone because my sister stepped on our disk, I can't bring files over to Ubuntu for them because the entire partion for Vista deleted itself automatically.
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Mar 19, 2010
I had Ubuntu 9.10 installed and working great. I wanted to check out SUSE because i heard it was better for laptops and wanted to test it out. Went through the install, which was a bit more complicated partition wise than I'd like, asking the begin and end segment shell or something. I changed them to give me a 5GB partition, deleted an old partition of gNewSense (wireless was just too difficult to implement ie. work) and tada... stuff broke. gNewSense still shows up in SUSE's "GRUB" but I can't boot to it. When I threw in my 9.10 cd to fix everything, it showed that 9.10 was still installed and gNewSense was not.
So, how can I fix this. Is there a way to just reinstall the 9.10 GRUB for the Ubuntu I already have installed? The sooner the better, Ubuntu was my primary OS and all my stuff is on it! FYI, do not recommend SUSE as far as installation goes
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May 28, 2010
local network access ok, no internet access.......... weird. IFCONFIG shows my static IP, but I cant access the internet at all.
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Jun 29, 2010
I had it working perfectly everything worked including my headset. The only problem was certain programs were too quiet for my taste and seeing as i have a laptop and cant manually turn up the speakers i looked for a solution and found
Code: [URL] I followed those directions to try and boost the poor sound volume that has plagued me in ubuntu distros. Instead sound sparsly works. It is quieter than was, and if chrome is open at all no sound will play at all in rhythmbox or amarok(the play button dont even works it just sits at 0:00) Only after chrome closes does it play my music files again but only on this partition. As now my windows partition thats also located on this fakeraid just magically disappeared.
how to fix this as i dont even know what i did to begin with. how i can trash kde and start over from within gnome(havent tried to see if it works there yet though) EDIT: Logged back in to gnome and everything works fine. The missing partition is auto mounted like i wanted, the sound is perfectly fine. Obviously something got screwed up in the kde config but i dont know what or what to look for as i have never used kde before.
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Aug 24, 2010
I had ubuntu, mint and win 7 now i cant boot non of em having pclinuxos installed in a newly created partition. grub only shows pclinuxos and nothing else.i cant even see my other partitions .. installed pclinuxos as root.
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Sep 14, 2010
I really don't know what to say or begin, my drive was working fine and then I installed dvdshrink via Wine and backed up a DVD using Brasero to burn the image created. However, upon completing the copy and trying a new disk it wouldn't read it at all other than recognizing it's there in places, the desktop, and with a startup window.But nothing will play it, making it very frustrating since it had worked prior to completing the burn. I don't get it
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Nov 1, 2010
During the installation the installer asked me if my clock was set to UTC. I didn't know what that meant so I said yes. Now whenever I boot into Lenny it messes up the time of day, and since I dual boot with puppy and knoppix on this machine, the time of day is messed up in those systems also. Any idea how to permanently undo the damage in Lenny?
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Feb 2, 2010
Need advice on reinstalling gnome - Applications, Places and System menus gone from the top panel after today's update.
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