Hi Guys
the weirdest thing has just happened, I logged out of my desktop but instead of going to the login screen I just got a black screen, I hit ctrl alt del it rebooted into the grub bootloader I can select Peppermint 4, the Peppermint logo shows up then just a black screen with a fixed cursor at the top left of the screen.
Any help would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Graeme
Can you type in that screen (does it accept keyboard input)?
Also are you able to get to a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 ?
Boot to a LiveCD/LiveUSB and post the output from:
sudo fdisk -l
Have you just got any updates ?
Can you type in that screen (does it accept keyboard input)?
It accepts no keyboard input
Have you just got any updates ?
Yes but I didn’t check to see what they were I just updated as I usually do
graeme@Linux3:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for graeme:
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
/dev/sdb2 366327806 703281151 168476673 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 366327808 699105279 166388736 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 699107328 703281151 2086912 82 Linux swap / Solaris
graeme@Linux3:~$
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00039639
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 73988095 36993024 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 73990142 78163967 2086913 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 73990144 78163967 2086912 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 360.1 GB, 360080695296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 43777 cylinders, total 703282608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
graeme@Linux3:~$
Disk identifier: 0x00000001
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 366326759 183162356 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Are the keyboard lights flashing ?
Try booting to a liveCD/LiveUSB and running:
sudo fsck -f /dev/sda5
then rebooting to the hard drive.
if that doesn’t work, boot back to the Live session and try to navigate onto your hard drives /var/log/atp/history.log … that should give us a clue what updates were applied.
You may want to try removing “quiet splash” from the kernel boot line and see if you get any clues where the boot is stalling.
I take it, it no longer gets as far as the login screen ?
Are the keyboard lights flashing ?
Can’t answer that at the moment I’m at work but I’ll post back with that as soon as i can
Try booting to a liveCD/LiveUSB and running: Code: [Select] sudo fsck -f /dev/sda5
I have another OS on the same PC but on a different drive, can i use that instead of a live disc ?
I take it, it no longer gets as far as the login screen ?
Yes I get to the point where i should get the login screen
When I boot I get the grub screen I can select the OS then I get the Peppermint logo with the 5 red lights, then i get a list of errors mounting cifs drives ( but that’s normal) the next stage should be the login screen but it just goes black with a fixed cursor at the top left corner and it accepts no keyboard input, the only way out is to switch off at the PC.
Hmm … I didn’t notice the weird way the partition information is being listed above … so IGNORE the fsck command from my last posting
I have another OS on the same PC but on a different drive, can i use that instead of a live disc ?
It propbaly wouldn’t be a good idea, you cannot run fsck on a mounted partition, and I’m not sure which is the Peppermint partition
sda1
or
sdb5
So it’s probably safer to boot to a LiveCD/LiveUSB and run fsck on both of those partitions.
Do you know which is the Peppermint one ?
Do you know which is the Peppermint one ?
I’d be guessing if i said i knew for certain but I think it’s sdb1
Peppermint is installed alongside Windows 7 on the 360gb drive, the other Linux OS (Bodhi) is installed on a separate 40gb drive on it’s own
I take it the 360GB drive is set as the first boot device ?
Yes it looks like it’s /dev/sdb5
But unless you’re 100% sure, it’s still safer to run it from a booted LiveUSB, as that won’t mount anything (as long as you do nothing to mount anything).
So boot a LiveCD/LiveUSB and run:
sudo fsck -f /dev/sdb5
then
sudo fsck /dev/sda1
then reboot and try Peppermint.
I’ll post back that information as soon as I can but it looks like I’m gonna have to work a bit later tonight (the joys of self employment)
but in the meantime if you remember there was some confusion regarding my system and in particular grub so it may be helpfull for you to refer back to this thread
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10893.0
Many thanks
Graeme
Hi Mark
Ok I followed your last instructions but it made no difference other than I now have no fixed cursor at the top left of the screen. 
Graeme
Not sure if this is any help but I found this in /var/log
[+0.06s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log [+0.06s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.6.0, UID=0 PID=1298 [+0.06s] DEBUG: Loaded configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf [+0.06s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager [+0.07s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal [+0.07s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote [+0.07s] DEBUG: Adding default seat [+0.07s] DEBUG: Starting seat [+0.07s] DEBUG: Starting new display for greeter [+0.07s] DEBUG: Starting local X display [+0.08s] DEBUG: X server :0 will replace Plymouth [+0.10s] DEBUG: Using VT 7 [+0.10s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log [+0.10s] DEBUG: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 [+0.10s] DEBUG: Launching X Server [+0.10s] DEBUG: Launching process 1341: /usr/bin/X :0 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none [+0.10s] DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0 [+0.10s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager [+0.11s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 [+0.26s] DEBUG: Process 1341 terminated with signal 6 [+0.26s] DEBUG: X server stopped [+0.26s] DEBUG: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 [+0.26s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7 [+0.26s] DEBUG: Stopping Plymouth, X server failed to start [+89.87s] DEBUG: Display server stopped [+89.87s] DEBUG: Stopping display [+89.87s] DEBUG: Stopping seat, failed to start a display [+89.87s] DEBUG: Stopping seat [+89.87s] DEBUG: Seat stopped [+89.87s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped [+89.87s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager [+89.87s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped [+89.87s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon [+89.88s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value
that’s from the Peppermint partition ?
I’m gonna guess so, as I doubt if Bodhi uses LightDM.
that's from the Peppermint partition ?
Yes it’s from the Peppermint 4 partition
Hmm … looks like X is crashing
Which log was that from?
and can you access the (peppermint partition) /var/log/apt/history.log … scroll to the bottom, and post anything with yesterdays date.
sda1 = Bodhi
sdb1= Windows
sdb5= Peppermint
Start-Date: 2013-06-26 19:57:35 Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.58' Upgrade: python3-software-properties:i386 (0.92.17, 0.92.17.1), peppermint-system:i386 (4.0.4, 4.0.5), pm-utils:i386 (1.4.1-9git1, 1.4.1-9git1ubuntu0.1), software-properties-common:i386 (0.92.17, 0.92.17.1), software-properties-gtk:i386 (0.92.17, 0.92.17.1), yad:i386 (0.21.0-1~webupd8~raring, 0.22.0-1~webupd8~raring), firefox-locale-en:i386 (21.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.2, 22.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.1) End-Date: 2013-06-26 19:58:01Start-Date: 2013-06-26 21:28:25
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Install: mypaint-data:i386 (1.0.0-1, automatic), mypaint:i386 (1.0.0-1)
End-Date: 2013-06-26 21:28:35
That’s all I see for yesterdays date
Are you able to boot to Peppermint recovery mode and drop to a root prompt ?
Are you able to boot to Peppermint recovery mode and drop to a root prompt ?
I’ll try, what do you want me to do ?
First I want you to run:
lshw -C display
(im after which driver is being used)
can youu also pot any output from this:
ls -al /etc/X11/xorg.conf