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Well now, when trying to force Hatari onto a particular screen, in the process deleting xorg.conf, I seem to have broken everything.

Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu 14.04.4, everything seems to boot ok, masses of text go by, and then it just sits there with a black screen and a blinking line. I cannot Ctrl + Alt into any of the ttys, nothing gets typed when I press keys, and none of the special keys like the shutdown key work. The only thing that responds is the power button which starts the unattended updates and then the final shutdown sequence.

I've tried many things short of formatting and reinstalling sda1, simply because I have many repositories and programs installed, and I wish to keep the Classic Gnome session for my login. Unless you know of a way to keep all that (synaptic) information somewhere and once restored will automatically install what's missing?

The things I've tried:

  • Replaced xorg.conf with one of the backups and .failsafe

  • Removed ~/.config/monitors.xml

  • Tried generating a new xorg.conf with sudo X -configure through LiveCD giving the error:

    No devices to configure. Configuration failed. (EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.

  • Installed boot-repair and tried to run it through LiveCD's terminal (using the following), but nothing seems to have happened. Something about Gtk errors.

  • Reinstalled xserver-xorg from LiveCD using chroot into sda1

  • My options in the recovery mode are: recover mode options

    • dpkg - Runs for a bit with remounting the file systems, then does nothing for an hour. By pressing Ctrl + C it ends and resumes normal boot, up to the blank screen.

    • fsck - Seems to run, passing through the basic volumes, then doesn't seem to do anything. I've monitored my drive LED but it seems to just stop. By pressing Ctrl + C after a long wait of nothing, it ends and resumes normal boot, up to the blank screen.

    • network - Runs for a bit with remounting the file systems, then does nothing for an hour. By pressing Ctrl + C it ends and resumes normal boot, up to the blank screen.

    • root - Here I am able to move and copy files around, but X or Xorg, apt-get, dpkg or anything of that nature doesn't seem to exist.

So, short of reinstalling everything, what else can I try (be specific where to try it, like LiveCD terminal, chrooted, or recovery mode)?

NOTE that I can't seem to run the LiveCD's Desktop through "Try Ubuntu". I get a black screen with the mouse, and if I wait long enough it would seem the keyboard stops working (can't get into any ttys).

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Well, by some miracle after doing another reinstall and dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg, all is back to normal now.

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