xubuntu 12.10 has stopped boo

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:47:37AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:24:02PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 21:01 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > > I run xubuntu 12.10 and the system has stopped booting, it fails to get
> > > to the login screen.  It's not *very* broken because I can still run
> > > startx from one of the consoles and it runs the  GUI OK, it's just the
> > > login that isn't working.
> > [SNIP stuff]
> > > Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?
> > 
> > Its not an XFCE issue. If your machine can;t even get to the Loging
> > Screen, it is the Display Manager that is causing you issues or even X.
> > Or what ever its called... Plymouth?
> > 
> OK, so where should I be asking about this?
> 
> > Just a guess.
> > 
> > From the snipped stuff you included, Also it looks like brltty was
> > removed or is not running properly... 
> > 
> That brltty message is there when it boots correctly.
> 
> It's all the thunar etc. errors that seem to relate to it not booting
> and thunar definitely is part of xfce.
> 
Some recent software updates seem to hve fixed it, since yesterday:-

    Setting up libisc83 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up libdns81 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up libisccc80 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up libisccfg82 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up libbind9-80 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up liblwres80 (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up bind9-host (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...
    Setting up dnsutils (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.2) ...

... booting OK now.  :-)


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Chris Green