On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM Bernard <bdebr...@free.fr> wrote: > > Having done some minor resettings on alsamixer with no results, I > thought I had to reboot. > > But : "Oh no, something has gone wrong..." > > So, I am writing this message from my other laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 > > I tried to reboot in rescue mode, but I don't know what to do from > there. 'startx' says that it doesn't have the proper files to launch > startx as root. > > login > bd > > says : wrong login (doesn't even ask a pswd) >
It's unclear how far you're getting. Can you boot normally and get to a login prompt on a text-only screen? -- Kent