14 Mar
2013
14 Mar
'13
6:44 p.m.
Hello
I have installed Kubuntu 10.04 with trinity 3.5.11 (I think) on a X60
Thinkpad Laptop.
This morning the xerver freezed and I had to reboot,
I got a graphical login, could login, kde3 started, however the hard
disk was in read only mode. So I rebooted again, this time it took
almost 15 min to reboot, a sign that some hard disk problem occurred; (I
have the jfs file system.)
Anyhow finally the machine booted again successfully, I got a graphical
login but now I could *NOT* login, the password was accepted but instead
the graphical login screen reappeared.
I could login on a terminal though. So I thought maybe the xorg.conf file
was damaged. But this Kubuntu version does not have a xorg file anymore,
as google told me.
So what can I do?
(1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org ???
(2) sudo X -configure?
(3) sudo dexconfiure -o xorg.con??
Any help is strongly appreciated, because the only other solution it to
try a _complete_ reinstall.
thanks
Uwe Brauer
My first suggestion would be to move (not copy) your home folder somewhere
safe, then try logging in again. If you can successfully log on with a
fresh home directory, then a configuration file was probably damaged. If
not, a complete reinstall is likely in order to repair damage to system
files.
Tim