On 20 November 2012 11:30, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: > > On 19/11/12 10:31, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > On 19 November 2012 10:22, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >> >> I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 and all was well until today, now I can no >> longer boot into it. I get some text on the screen but it does not get as >> far as letting me log in. >> >> First it was some messages about not being able to touch some files in my >> home directory due to read only file system. I did a hard reboot (keyboard >> was unresponsive) and then next time I tried to boot there were various >> other messages. I had to hard reboot again and boot into a different distro. >> >> What could be wrong with it? >> > > The first issue suggests that you might have a problem with your disk but we > need more information Is the other distro working? Can you see the Ubuntu > Studio partition from the other distro? How is your machine configured? > > s/ > -- > Twitter: @sfgreenwood > "TBA are particularly glib" > > > > > > > I can boot into Linux Mint from the same hard disk (using it now). I can see > the Ubuntu Studio partition okay, it is not corrupted. I also did a > filesystem check and that did not turn up any errors.
When booted into Mint have a look at /var/log/syslog in the Studio partition and see if any rude messages there. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/