9.04 xorg badly broken

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Leonard
Chatagnier<lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> BIG SNIP.
>> > What happens if you boot into recovery mode and run
>> xfix?
>>
>> No can do.  No such animal, as mentioned above.
>>
> Are you sure you are accessing recovery mode(single user) correctly? On a boot/reboot, you have to press escape before grub starts and select the recovery mode kernel entry from the list of available kernels to boot. It's the second entry for each installed kernel. let the system boot in recovery mode and you should eventually see a gui listing of 4 entries, the last of which is xfix. Select the xfix entry and continue booting.

It's a bit different for me.  Pressing escape before grub starts does
nothing, maybe because there's no boot manager before grub.  I have it
on the MBR, and it's first in line.  But yes, I start the second
kernel, and it is recovery mode.  But the menu I get does not match
this description.  Instead I get a character-mode menu UI (looks sort
of graphical, but does not respond
to a mouse, just arrow keys), with 6 options:
  1 resume   Resume normal boot
  2 clean      Try to make free space
  3 dpkg       Repair broken packages
  4 fsck        File system check
  5 grub       Update grub bootloader
  6 netroot    Drop to root shell prompt with networking

No xfix.

++ kevin

> I'm not totally sure if Jaunty has xfix in recovery mode as I haven't used it but can't think of a reason why it would not be.
> Let the list know if you followed the above general sequence or not.
>>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
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>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>>
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