GNOME session not starting after filesystem corruption
- by user3215
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
