X wont start anymore.

tragic · 2010-01-07 20:05:54

Yesterday morning everything was working fine, I was on IRC and chatting with a few friends when my browser (Iron) crashed. I tried starting it back up and it would close again, I typed ps x to try and kill any leftover processes but there were none. I typed ls and got a "command not found" same with the command "free". So I rebooted my system (reboot wasn't found either so I had to hold the power button in) and when i started up I couldn't connect to the internet wirelessly and when I tried starting X I would get a black screen with two little lines on the top that are the size of underscores. So I did a DoD short format using DBAN and reinstalled arch this morning... same thing after starting X. I'm on a Dell Vostro business laptop and lspci shows the card to be a Intel Mobile GM965/GL960.

No idea what the problem is, I started a live cd to make sure it could start X and xubuntu worked completely fine.

Hopefully I can get some help,

thanks for reading.

liquibyte · 2010-01-08 18:37:23

Sounds to me like a hardware problem. Namely your harddrive is going out. Do you have a spare drive you can install to and see if that works? I've had this problem and that's what it was for me at least. If you mount your other drive after the fact, you may still be able to save your data.

JuseBox · 2010-01-08 18:53:03

liquibyte wrote:

Sounds to me like a hardware problem. Namely your harddrive is going out. Do you have a spare drive you can install to and see if that works? I've had this problem and that's what it was for me at least. If you mount your other drive after the fact, you may still be able to save your data.

It is your HDD, It is working from your optical drive that is why your live cds work. You could always grab a 2 gb usb drive and work from there until you get a new drive for the laptop. This has happened to me twice. The first time I thought that same things just like you.

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#1 2010-01-07 20:05:54

X wont start anymore.

#2 2010-01-08 18:37:23

Re: X wont start anymore.

#3 2010-01-08 18:53:03

Re: X wont start anymore.

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