I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition. Suddenly today /home became corrupted and I was prompted to run fsck manually. I ran fsck -y /home and rebooted the system. The system booted but I got no GUI interface (GNOME session) but a black screen with a user prompt instead. Any tricks here to start my system normally? Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT:1

The error were similar to the the following(may be with some mistakes as I had to type it manually):

machine1 login: root

password:

at login Sun Jan 16 15:30:46 IST 2011 on tty1

EXT3-fs error (devie sda1): ext3_lookup :deleted inode referenced

aborting journal on device sda1

Remounting filesystem read-only

root@machine1:~# startx

ktemp: failed to create file via template `/tmp/serverauth.xxxxxxxxxxx: Read-only file

/usr/bin/startx: line 157: cannot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file

xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority

/usr/bin/startx: line 173: cannnot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file

xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority

/usr/bin/startx: line 173: cannnot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file

X: cannot stat /tmp/.x11-unix (No such file or directory), aborting

giving up.

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to xserver

xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority