| polll | hey any1 know why following this tutorial on 15.10 renders ubuntu un-bootable? http://yarenty.blogspot.ca/2014/08/how-to-fix-macbook-pro-touchpad-on.html I ran 'systemctl restart lightdm' and I haven't been able to boot into ubuntu since. Im using refind and 15.10 on a Macbook pro. I'm definitely a noob, my bad if this turns out to be a ridiculous question. I eventually booted on a live USB stick, and removed the lines of cod | 04:08 |
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| polll | e I added to that file (from the tutorial) (on the actual ubuntu, not my live usb's filesystem). Still no luck. I installed boot-repair on the liveusb, but only generated a report to pastebin as I wasn't sure if running it would be the best choice of action as of yet. the report is here (https://paste.ubuntu.com/15021793/). I should probably add that by unbootable i mean it hangs at a terminal screen with "fsck from util-linux 2.26. | 04:08 |
| polll | 2" at the top. 2nd line is "/dev/sda5:clean, 460106/3112960 files, 3043774/12450560 blocks". At first it was hanging on something related to bluetooth. Now it hangs at Starting Light Display Manager... and deal with any system changes.signatures....". Again, if this is a ridiculous question, my apologies. I have very little experience with these types of problems. | 04:08 |
| darkxst | polll, we dont use lightdm in ubuntu GNOME | 06:46 |
| darkxst | and there is no reason that would completely break your system (even after removing the file you added) | 06:47 |
| polll | Right, that was my mistake for entering it. But it still did something. If it helps I'm left hanging with this command "4.402071 Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Read verbose config info failed (-16)s.signatures......." | 06:48 |
| darkxst | polll, no I would think something else broke it, but just to make sure you could remove the mtrack package | 06:51 |
| darkxst | bluetooth error won't break your boot | 06:51 |
| polll | Okay, thank you. But if I cant boot into Ubuntu how can I remove the package? | 06:51 |
| darkxst | recovery mode | 06:51 |
| polll | I can't seem to access recovery mode. I've tried holding shift and it's yielded no results. | 06:52 |
| polll | Would the Live USB help? | 06:52 |
| darkxst | you just need to get the timing right, if you hit shift to early the bios probably eats it | 06:52 |
| darkxst | you could probably do it with the live USB, but may need to set your root via kernel commandline | 06:53 |
| darkxst | (I'm not really sure what the live usb offers in way of repair modes otherwise, maybe it can be done easier than that) | 06:54 |
| polll | I'll give the timing another try. I figured it may be of some use to send over a picture so here's where I am at currently: https://imgur.com/LZeawb3 | 06:57 |
| darkxst | polll, are you using Ubuntu GNOME? or just plain Ubuntu? | 06:59 |
| darkxst | and logs would be far more useful to screenshots ;) | 07:01 |
| polll | Oh wow. I'm sorry, I may be in the wrong channel. I joined in a hurry and misread GNOME for GRUB. I have the default Ubuntu 15.10 desktop installation. So I'm assuming I'm not in Gnome. | 07:01 |
| polll | Is the pastebin of any help? | 07:01 |
| polll | https://paste.ubuntu.com/15021793/ | 07:02 |
| darkxst | no | 07:02 |
| darkxst | Xorg.0.log might | 07:03 |
| darkxst | or journalctl output | 07:03 |
| polll | I can access the file system with the Live USB. How would I go about acquiring this log? | 07:03 |
| darkxst | /var/log/xorg.0.log | 07:07 |
| darkxst | not entirely sure if lightdm logs there or not though | 07:07 |
| darkxst | journalctl needs to be run from a running system, so you could boot into a systemd shell, but again that requires grub and/or setting root= params | 07:09 |
| darkxst | Noskcaj, can you update your vte merge to latest 0.42.4-1 | 07:12 |
| polll | Right. I'm still not able to access the GRUB menu. But I found a lightdm logs folder. I've copied over those logs. There was a Xorg.0.log but it doesnt have much in it. I'll throw them on pastebin in a second | 07:19 |
| polll | here;s xorg.0.log, https://paste.ubuntu.com/15022800/ | 07:21 |
| polll | lightdm.log https://paste.ubuntu.com/15022802/ | 07:22 |
| polll | x-0.log (inside the lightdm folder) https://paste.ubuntu.com/15022804/ | 07:23 |
| darkxst | polll, Parse error on line 1 of section InputClass in file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf | 07:24 |
| darkxst | "old" is not a valid keyword in this section. | 07:24 |
| darkxst | thats your problem | 07:24 |
| polll | I did go back and remove the lines of code I added to that file, though. | 07:25 |
| darkxst | it must still be there or you corrupted the file somehow | 07:25 |
| polll | OH WOW | 07:26 |
| polll | There was a line missing a hashtag to comment it out... | 07:26 |
| polll | well, this is embarrassing. | 07:26 |
| darkxst | polll, and it would have been less embarrassing if you were in the right channel ;) | 07:28 |
| polll | Very true. Stress does wonderful things to people. Thank you so much for your time, patience, and help. I really appreciate it, as this must have been irritating. | 07:40 |
| darkxst | polll, np | 07:41 |
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