ubuntu 7.10 won't boot

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

Chris Gow writes: 

> On Wednesday 23 January 2008 16:01:36 chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> I can't boot my ubuntu 7.10 system. 
>>
>> I'm getting this: 
>>
>> Starting up...
>> Loading, please wait...
>> usplash: Setting mode 1280X1024 failed
>> usplash: Setting mode 1152X864 failed
>> usplash: Setting mode 1024X768 failed
>> usplash: Using mode 800X600
>> kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/md1) + md1(9,7)
>> kinit: trying to resume from /dev/md1
>> kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot... 
>>
>> Ubuntu 7.10 cpc tty1 
>>
>> I don't know if my (brand-new) hard drive is crashing or what. I went into
>> the BIOS to see if there was any IRQ conflict with my emu1212m pci card (I
>> haven't been able to initialize it under alsa) - I made a change and
>> rebooted and got the above. So, I went innto the BIOS and restored default
>> settings. I'm still getting the above error. At the prompt I logged in as
>> root and tried to run init 5 - that did nothing - same for init 3. init 1
>> got me to another screen but I don't know what to do in init 1 anyway. 
>>
>> Any ideas? I'm emailing this through webmail on another machine. i guess
>> you can tell from the above that I have set up RAID not that I would know
>> how to restore from RAID but I thought the point of RAID is that if a hard
>> drive goes the other will take over.
> So you can log in as root, can you also log in as normal user? What happens if 
> you run startx? Does your X start up then?  
> 
> I'd also check your /var/log/Xorg.log

I have a /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. It's really long - what am I looking for? 

>and if startx doesn't work maybe 

It didn't. 

> your .xsession-errors in your home directory

Another big file. A couple that caught my eye: 

Refusing to initialize GTK+ 

Gtk - WARNING ***: process running setuid or setgid - this is not a 
supported use of GTK+ - you must create a helper app instead. 

Am I looking for that or something else? 

Chris 

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