[nylug-talk] Re: Boot Failure after Attempted Ubuntu Upgrade

[Ah Pook]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 8:33 pm, James Keenan wrote:
> We then went to reboot without the CD.  It booted well, with one
> major exception:  We couldn't get the X Window system to start, so
> all I have currently is a terminal.  Any suggestions?

grep EE /var/log/X*

Poke around in there, anyway.  EE is errors, and WW is warnings, so it's 
easy to grep.  Can't remember what the XFree log is called, but x.org 
is Xorg.0.log or something.  If it's not starting at all, you'll 
probably have some errors right at the end of that file.

> A sysadmin will take a look at this box on Monday.  My colleague's
> estimate was that we're probably just one or two commands away from
> getting everything working again.  However, I figure that if worse
> come to worst, I can rsync all my critical directories to a server
> and re-install Ubuntu 5.10 from scratch.  Does that seem plausible?

Yep.  But you've already backed up everything critical, haven't you, so 
you don't have to worry about anything dying, now or in the near 
future?  Yes, you have.  :-)