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(SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:39 am
by tdockery97
Updated LMDE last night and now it will not boot. It gets as far as the little button spinning around, and then completely locks up. If I boot in recovery mode I can start x in root mode, but I have no clue what to do from there. I'm beginning to think the only solution is to wipe LMDE completely.
Re: Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:56 am
by defcon
Search your logs (messages and syslog) and have a look into Xorg.0.log
Re: Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:16 am
by tdockery97
defcon wrote:Search your logs (messages and syslog) and have a look into Xorg.0.log
Nothing in there appears to shed any light on the situation. They are way to long to post here. I may just have to nuke LMDE. I don't think there is any way to revert an update.
Re: Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:01 am
by Susu
Try
or if that doesn't help maybe
Re: (SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:37 am
by Dyfi
Hi tdockery97,
Slap your wrist - back in September I suggested to you regular Clonezilla image backups.
It is nice to be able to solve problems via the terminal, but, Clonezilla would have been a very quick fix!
Good luck with it.
Regards,
Dyfi.
Re: (SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:12 am
by tdockery97
Dyfi wrote:Hi tdockery97,
Slap your wrist - back in September I suggested to you regular Clonezilla image backups.
It is nice to be able to solve problems via the terminal, but, Clonezilla would have been a very quick fix!
Good luck with it.
Regards,
Dyfi.
Actually, that's how I solved it.
Re: (SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:06 pm
by Dyfi
Hi tdockery97,
I`ll slap my wrist now for thinking the worst!
Dyfi
Re: (SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:44 pm
by tdockery97
I'm one of Clonezilla's biggest fans. I do a new image at least every 2 weeks that has latest updates, or whenever I make major changes in installed software.
Re: (SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:06 am
by Dyfi
Hi tdockery97,
As a matter of interest I now use Parted Magic rescue CD which includes Clonezilla and loads of other rescue tools.
Here is the link
http://partedmagic.com/
Regards,
Dyfi
Re: (SOLVED) Update Killed LMDE
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:04 am
by tdockery97
Dyfi wrote:Hi tdockery97,
As a matter of interest I now use Parted Magic rescue CD which includes Clonezilla and loads of other rescue tools.
Here is the link
http://partedmagic.com/
Regards,
Dyfi
Thanks for the great tip Dyfi. I just downloaded and burned live CD. It loads and runs completely from RAM. How cool is that?