On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. > > I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. > > These were taken while the system was running, but quiet. I did it this > > way because I cannot get the system to boot into single user mode. > Putting > > "single" on the end of the "linux" like results in a black screen. > > > > I restored these, created /sys and /proc, and tried to boot the resulting > > partition. It boots, but X does not come up, or even seem to try. I can > do > > a console login to my usual account, and stuff is there. > > What commands did you run to back up and restore the system? > > For the Linux part (there's also Windows on some of my machines) it's all tar.
> Is '/tmp' a tmpfs filesystem? If not, did you back up and restore it? > It's a subdirectory of /, not a mount point on the machine in question. > > Did you exclude '/run'? If not, did you restore it? > I exclude /var/run and /var/lock > > Did you create '/proc' and '/sys' with the right ownership and mode? > > Hmm. They appear right. 755 owned by root. > If this is a Debian system, is it a non-standard install that doesn't > use udev (AFAIK this is still possible)? If not, there's no point in > backing up and restoring '/dev'. > > It's vanilla Xubuntu. I back up and restore what's on the hard drive via a bind mount. I wasn't convinced there wasn't something in the boot process that needed it. > If this is an Ubuntu system, the default '(recovery)' grub entry will > have 'nomodeset' appended. Try that when you add 'single'. > > Are you using a DM? A what? Xubuntu uses xfce4 if that answers the question. Are you using a WM or a DE? > A what? > > Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors. > Xorg logs seem normal I don't see any xsessions-errors file > Can you launch X after logging in to the console? > I don't know how. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swjn5qggmjo7qta_2otefqgzihwpn35hykxshk4_oa...@mail.gmail.com > > -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
