Startup is stuck

Hi,

After my update this morning I turned the machine off in the usual way. Tonight I started up and there is a problem. When the script arrived at "LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernal module" it then kicked me into terminal. It was called "Zorin OS 12.1 zorin tty1" followed by a request for login.

I tried a couple of things but the desktop didn't come back. I see the directory's are still the same.

Has this happened to anyone else?
Did you fix it?
Is there something I can try?

Walter

Is Zorin running in Virtual Box on Windows? I have 12.1 but I never see any scripts running just the glowing Z before arriving at the login prompt.

Swarfendor437 wrote:Is Zorin running in Virtual Box on Windows? I have 12.1 but I never see any scripts running just the glowing Z before arriving at the login prompt.

Hi, Zorin is installed on linux. The scripts interrupt the glowing Z.


Walter

qnarkill wrote:Check this out

Thanks qnarkill. The information on the link sounds kind of like an extreme disk level repair. I can still see the contents of all my directories so that suggests something appears to be working fine in the file system. Everything was fine 4 days ago so I'll try other things before I go there if I get other suggestions. I would like to undo all the updates of the past few days. Is that possible?

Also Do you know if the GUI can be started from the terminal? I'd like to try that if you know the command line entries?

Walter

The information on the link sounds kind of like an extreme disk level repair.

No but they might actually fix your machine. Suite yourself though.

To check the history of updates

Code:

cat /var/log/dpkg.log

To start the gui from tty

Code:

sudo service lightdm start


qnarkill wrote:

The information on the link sounds kind of like an extreme disk level repair.

No but they might actually fix your machine. Suite yourself though.

No disrespect intended qnarkill. All suggestions are good! I'm just nervous about losing data. I've been looking around and it seems your suggestions are the best.Can I do a backup from the command line? I have a backup drive on the network.

yes you can f.e rsync
https://www.howtogeek.com/135533/how-to ... -on-linux/

Thank you qnarkill,
Your solutions worked but the GUI wouldn't come back. I tried lightdm but had to reinstall it even though it was on the machine but after that the two screens appeared and the icons came back a bit later. When I reboot everything is slow to load and there is an Ubuntu screen that loads first and stays for about 1-2 minutes but after that the screen resets itself and my icons appear. Its better than it was thank you very much.

What did you actually try? Did you try to uninstall all the updates that you had installed before this happened?