(SOLVED. Thank you!) Crashed. Now only Localhost login

[Georgetoon]

 was working in Scribus just now and my system locked up.  completely froze.  I did do an update today.

Anyhow, it would not respond to REISUB or a simple Ctrl Alt Backspace. So, I ht the reset button.  the system booted bu the GUI grub menu does not come up.  All I get is a prompt.

Can someone please tell me how to get back to the GUI login screen?

[Georgetoon]

Oky, i did a google search.  I logged in, issued su and then from root prompt issued startx.  I'm getting a Fatal server error no screens found.  In addition, it says, "failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist."  I did do n update today that had an nvidia update.

[Texstar]

You may have a corrupted file system that needs to be repaired.

login at the console as root with your root password then

type: touch /forcefsck press enter
type: reboot press enter

When rebooting press the esc key to watch it as it scans your filesystem.

[Georgetoon]

Doing this now.  I booted the bfs kernel because pae kernel was hanging at "Installing Wine."    I installed Wine today, as well.
dang.  Gotta do it again....rebooted and hanging at Wine on th pae kernel.

[Georgetoon]

Okay.  Ran as instructed.  Still taking me to localhost login.  I did not see any errors reported as it ran fsck.

[Texstar]

Maybe the nvidia kernel driver did not install properly. You can try at the root login prompt

type: rpm -e dkms-nvidia-current

then type:  apt-get install dkms-nvidia-current

[Georgetoon]

Maybe the nvidia kernel driver did not install properly. You can try at the root login prompt

type: rpm -e dkms-nvidia-current

then type:  apt-get install dkms-nvidia-current

Thanks, Tex.  doing so now.

I'll issue reboot and then see what happens.

[Georgetoon]

Nope.  Came back to prompt again.

[Texstar]

Did you get any errors when it rebuilt the nvidia kernel driver?

If not then you can try to reset your xorg.conf file.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
rm: remove regular file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf'? y
[root@thenudiebar ~]# XFdrake --auto
[root@thenudiebar ~]# startx

[Georgetoon]

Did you get any errors when it rebuilt the nvidia kernel driver?

If not then you can try to reset your xorg.conf file.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
rm: remove regular file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf'? y
[root@thenudiebar ~]# XFdrake --auto
[root@thenudiebar ~]# startx

Unable to connect to X server.
Again, failed to load Nvidia module does not exist.

[Georgetoon]

If it helps, I can email you a screenshot .

[Texstar]

Did you get any errors when it rebuilt the nvidia kernel driver?

If not then you can try to reset your xorg.conf file.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
rm: remove regular file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf'? y
[root@thenudiebar ~]# XFdrake --auto
[root@thenudiebar ~]# startx

Unable to connect to X server.
Again, failed to load Nvidia module does not exist.

Try this:

depmod -a
modprobe nvidia
startx

[Georgetoon]

Did you get any errors when it rebuilt the nvidia kernel driver?

If not then you can try to reset your xorg.conf file.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
rm: remove regular file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf'? y
[root@thenudiebar ~]# XFdrake --auto
[root@thenudiebar ~]# startx

Unable to connect to X server.
Again, failed to load Nvidia module does not exist.

Try this:

depmod -a
modprobe nvidia
startx

Same error again. nvidia module does not exisit.  unble to connect to x server

[Texstar]

For some reason it sounds like your video card doesn't like the updated nvidia drivers. Lets try to back down to the previous version.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# apt-get remove x11-driver-video-nvidia-current

Cleaning up / removing
  dkms-nvidia-current-304.51-1pclos2012. ############################## [100%]
  x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-304.51 ############################## [100%]
Done.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# wget -c http://pclinuxos.fi/pub/linux/2010/RPMS.nonfree/dkms-nvidia-current-290.10-1pclos2011.i586.rpm

[root@thenudiebar ~]# wget -c http://pclinuxos.fi/pub/linux/2010/RPMS.nonfree/x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-290.10-1pclos2011.i586.rpm

[root@thenudiebar ~]#  rpm -Uvh *nvidia*

[Georgetoon]

For some reason it sounds like your video card doesn't like the updated nvidia drivers. Lets try to back down to the previous version.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# apt-get remove x11-driver-video-nvidia-current

Cleaning up / removing
  dkms-nvidia-current-304.51-1pclos2012. ############################## [100%]
  x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-304.51 ############################## [100%]
Done.

[root@thenudiebar ~]# wget -c http://pclinuxos.fi/pub/linux/2010/RPMS.nonfree/dkms-nvidia-current-290.10-1pclos2011.i586.rpm

[root@thenudiebar ~]# wget -c http://pclinuxos.fi/pub/linux/2010/RPMS.nonfree/x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-290.10-1pclos2011.i586.rpm

[root@thenudiebar ~]#  rpm -Uvh *nvidia*

Did all that exactly.  Rebooted.  Still getting only a prompt.