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10.04 boots to terminal - low-graphics

Asked by Jeffrey Lawrence Davidson

On starup I get a dialog box about running in Low-Graphics Mode (Microsift 2.4 gHz transceiver v6.0: failed to initialize for relative axes). Attempting to run in low-graphics mode for one session causes startup to hang. Don't seem to be able to reconfigure (as if I'd know how).

Tried startx:
Error: Cannot close "/tmp/fileshxiro" properly (not enough space?)
           Output file "tmp/fileshxiro" removed

(EE) error compiling keymap (-)
(EE) xkb: couldn't compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config

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Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix) said : 		#1

try this

"sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak" and then "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart"

does it work your you?

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Jeffrey Lawrence Davidson (jeffundkelly) said : 		#2

Reply:

mv: cannot stat '?etc/X11/xorg.conf': No such file or directory

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please take care there is a "/" before "etc"

then please also type:

df -h

to see the free space on your partitions

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Jeffrey Lawrence Davidson (jeffundkelly) said : 		#4

Sorry for the delay. Tried "df -h":

/dev/loop0- - -size 13G- - -used 13G- - -Use% 100%- - -Mounted on dev
none- - -size 2G- - -used 268K- - -Mounted on /dev
none- - -size 2G- - -used 0- - -Mounted on /dev/shm
none- - -size 2G- - -used 76K- - -Mounted on /var/run
none- - -size 2G- - -used 0- - -Mounted on /var/lock
none- - -size 2G- - -used 0- - -Mounted on /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1- - -size 233G- - -used 41G- - -Use% 18%- - -Mounted on /host

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Jeffrey Lawrence Davidson (jeffundkelly) said : 		#5

Solved. Sudo apt-get clean from the terminal made it right. Thanks for all the help.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

In an attempt to create a cross link from this question to question #163847 someone erroneously created a link to bug #163847, a bug that is completely unrelated to this question. Currently there is no function in launchpad to mark a question related to or a duplicate of another question, so I remove the bug link and add the reference here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+question/163847