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On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 10:47 +0100, Peter M Le Mare wrote: > Here I am again asking for help. A few days ago my Linux (Ubunto 12.04) > just crashed and it will not boot up again. I have another version on a > separate disk and after secveral attempts I have booted up with this and > by accessing sideways all the documents etc. are there. Is there some > way of rescuing the boot up and desktop interface?? I have tried putting > in a cd data Ubunto but all it offers is yet another along side or > complete reformatting and wiping all data. > > There are two reasons for wanting to rescue this version as it had the > older desktop previous to Unity that gives me everything open along the > bottom I cannot get used to the Unity one which lists evrything down the > side but not individual windows). I can't remember what my desktop was > called and how I downloaded it. > > The second reason is that I have earlier this year lost al my old > addresses in my Thunderbird (17 odd years worth) and have just started > rebuilding it. I can copy over to a new system all the other data but I > have been unable to find where my addresses are and how to copy them. > > Yet again please help online and if there is anyone near me (St Just) I > would appreciate if you might visit and help. > > > Have you held the SHIFT key down whilst booting, this gets you the grub menu If you get this far we can help to boot in "safe mode" or recovery. It may just be a new kernel not working so just selecting the 2nd one from the top in the boot menu often works fine ie the kernel before an update. also if you just gto a lank screen Ctrl Alt F1 may give you a command line in which you can see logs /va/log/messages, syslog, dmessg. etc -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq