System stop loading at the screen with the HDD symbol.

[IReallyNeedHelp]

Hello,

i've been using kubuntu for a while because unity sucks i don't like the Ubuntu desktop, i was using my laptop and then it just shut down, when i plugged it to the AC it was booting fine, until the part where kubuntu shows the system symbols, when the HDD symbol is "loading" the screen just becomes black with a red "-" blinking in the top left corner.

I ran the computer in recovery mode and when it gave me the root shell i tried "startx" to see if it works, and when the HDD symbol is loading the screen comes back to the shell with "xinit: connection to X server lost"

is an old Notebook HP pavillion dv2000 64bits
Kubuntu 13.10
amd turion
2gb ram
150gb HDD

I really need help, please.

[vinnywright]

do you have your system set to log in automaticly ?

you should try deleting the file .Xauthority in your home directory,,,,,,,,the leading . makes it a hidden file

if this has no effect look to your grafics driver next.

VINNY

[IReallyNeedHelp]

Yes it log in automaticly.

I deleted ".Xauthority" in my home folder, same problem.

and about the drivers ... i boot kubuntu in live mode from an USB stick and the screen shows okay, so i doubt the drivers are wrong, since i have in the HDD the same drivers as in the USB stick.

[vinnywright]

OK then ,,,,,,run this

find ~/ -user root -ls

and post what it turns up ,,,if anything.

VINNY

eddit: you should be loged in as you to run this or chang the path "~/" to /home/you ,,,,,where "you" is your user name

[IReallyNeedHelp]

what is it supposed to return? because i got tons of lines.

[vinnywright]

then you have a serous problem ,,, if you ran it on your /home ,,,,,,,all files in your home directory should be owned by you not root

try a

chown -R you:you /home/you

where "you" is your user name

VINNY

and be sure you ran the find comand on /home/you the ~/ symbol is a shortcut for /home but if your loged in as root it will be roots /home

what is it supposed to return? because i got tons of lines.

it shows all files in the path you gave it that are owned by root,,,,,, if you wrer in a recovery console and as root then the ~/ would have showen roots /home not yours , ,,,,,, you would if runing as root half to use the full pathe .../home/you

[IReallyNeedHelp]

chown -R me:me /home/me

if giving me a list of all my files, so i just ctr+c

find /home/me -user root -ls

gave me this lines:

/.directory
/.kde/share/apps/kate/metainfos
/.dbus
/.dbus/session-bus
/.dbus/session-bus/(long alphanumeric string)

and other things at the right of them

[vinnywright]

run it agin on .dbus like

chown -R you:you /home/you/.dbus

then reboot and see if you get in .

VINNY

[IReallyNeedHelp]

it says at the end of every line something about read-only filesystem, rebooted, still the same problem ... is there a way to just install Kubuntu again whitout deleting all of my apps and files?

[vinnywright]

are you doing all of this from recovery moad ,,,,,,,,if so you must remount the file system read write first

SO if you are doing this from recovery mode ,,,,,,reboot , chose recovery then root after you have a shell do

mount -o rw,remount /

then do all those other lines again on /home/you

VINNY

[IReallyNeedHelp]

Ok this time isn't giving me any error, i did "startx" (as root) and now is showing me this error:

xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for xserver to shutdown (EE) server terminated sucessfully (0). closing log file.

[Snowhog]

Root cannot run startx. You should reboot now and see if you can log in normally and end up on the desktop.

[IReallyNeedHelp]

Same as the start, when the HDD icon is "loading" i get a black screen, then a blinking red "-" in the top left corner.

[IReallyNeedHelp]

help please !!

[Teunis]

Following Vinny's instructions you should be able to come to a resolution.

But yes, in the end you could do a near-fresh install, just make SURE you don't reformat the /home partition.
If you don't have /home on it's own partition, boot up with a Live disk or USB drive and copy all your valuables to an external disk...
But hey, we all have back ups anyway, right