Scott Waller wrote:
Hi Fellow Slugger,
Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I
am currently in the US.
I really need someone expert help.
I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision
M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems.
This morning I went to boot up my machine and got a weird gdm message
"Could not start the X server....due to some internal error"
The only way I can boot into X is to do the following...
sudo mount -o remount, rw /
then I can run
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
I get a message that there is already a session of X running blah
blah, I say yes to start a new one and then I am in.
I have to kill whiptail once I start as the CPU is going nuts...
I am in the US working, i have a big next 4 days of training and would
like to have my machine working.
I am currently doing a backup of my home directory and seriously
thinking about doing an online upgrade to 9.10
Your help is really appreciated.
Scott
your file system is being mounted read only, you need to solve that
problem first.
edit the kernel command in grub and delete the bits about silent and
graphical then look at whats going on.
if nothing jumps out there look through syslog
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