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? Is '/tmp' a tmpfs filesystem? If not, did you back up and restore it? Did you exclude '/run'? If not, did you restore it? Did you create '/proc' and '/sys' with the right ownership and mode? 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'. 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? Are you using a WM or a DE? Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors. Can you launch X after logging in to the console? -- 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