On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 23:08 -0600, Kent West wrote: > administrator wrote: > > My system fails to start properly after a bad shutdown (not using > > shutdown/power cut), the graphics are incorrect and full of lines at > > login point. No way of reading the screen as no real images to see, the > > initial boot text is fine but on entry into GUI it all goes wrong. > > This has happened before and sorted itself after waiting until the 21st > > boot to sort out file integrity but not now. > > I have installed a new HD as master and re loaded the latest dvd > > download but still the same thing when previous HD ran as slave. Now it > > has been 8 hrs trying to no avail, this is on i386, please advise, my > > work is in limbo until i sort this, TIA > > > >
I managed to work out that it was the graphics card!! must have been fading out for a while Funny that it was fixing itself before at the same time the boot did a file integrity check before it failed Thanks anyway > > > Try changing the res with Ctrl-Alt-plus-on-the-numpad a time or dozen. > Any improvement? > > You should be able to press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second Virtual > Terminal (VT), and log in from there into a text-mode only setup. > > From there, you can start working to fix X. > > I'd start by shutting down whatever login manager you have (sudo > /etc/init.d/[x|k|g|w]dm stop). Then you can try starting X manually with > "startx &". If that gives you a garbled screen, you can > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill it, then tinker with /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and > try again. > > > -- > Kent > >
