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[whistleblower]

Hi
I'm hoping someone can help me.  I have just had my computer in storage for 4 months.  yesterday when i fired it up it asked for username then password which I entered.  Normaly it would then go into the Linux system.  But what came up yesterday was a promt:

jerry@jerry`$

Does anybody know what I should type in to get it working??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[urandom]

you should type startx which will most likely fail but at least you should get some indications of why.

[justsumhelp]

jerry seems to have a case of the X blues, also try to pull up the last kernel update and boot in to that. dont know what grub you have but bang at the keyboard

urandom, on 2011-12-19 14:51:54, said:

you should type startx which will most likely fail but at least you should get some indications of why.

[whistleblower]

Ok guys
I typed in 'startx' and this is what I got:

(==)logfile:"/var/log/xorg.0.log"
(==)using config file: "/etc/x11/xorg.conf"
(==)using config directory "/usr/lib/x11/xorg.config.d"
(EE) VESA:kernal modesetting driverin use, refusing to load.
(EE) no devices detected

So does this mean that my computer is fried???

Any help greatly appreciated.

[urandom]

certainly not fried. try this:

sudo mv /etc/x11/xorg.conf{,.bak}

and reboot with:

sudo shutdown -r now

[urandom]

BTW there is a typo in there. It's/etc/X11/ with a capital X, change that in the command I have posted.

[whistleblower]

urandom, on 2012-01-13 12:58:27, said:

BTW there is a typo in there. It's/etc/X11/ with a capital X, change that in the command I have posted.

Hi Urandom
I tried what you said but the computer just kept coming back with the login prompt.  It did however say this above it:

* (orange star) Speech-dispatcher configured for user sessions landscape-client is not configured, please run landscape config.
* startining common unix printing system: cupsd
* (orange star) pulse audio configured for per user sessions
* enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt - support
* checking battery state.....

jerry@jerry`$

I am no computer genius soany help would be greatly appreciated.

[urandom]

can you please paste the output of:

ls /etc/X11/

just to be sure you backed up the file properly. please be careful as this is case sensitive, x is not the same as X.

also, please do the following:

sudo apt-get install wgetpaste

wgetpaste /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and please paste the resulting link here.

again, this is case sensitive and please do not mix O and 0. One way to be sure you're not mistyping is to use the [TAB] key. It will autocomplete the command/file/directory name for you. for example:
ls /etc/ [Press TAB] [Press TAB] will list all the possibilities
ls /etc/X [Press TAB] will autocomplete the path to /etc/X11/