[TriLUG] One thing led to another and killed my Samsung Ultrabook running Linux Mint.

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

Cadence has options for starting jack on startup. I would find the
configuration file behind that and prevent it running on startup and see if
that allows mdm to start up properly or not.

Ken

On May 21, 2015 6:03 PM, "Jeremy Davis via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the sound advice!
> On May 21, 2015 4:29 PM, "David Burton via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, the first thing I'd do is boot a "live" distro from CD or
thumbdrive,
> > and use it to clone the HDD to a backup drive, or at least backup your
> > important files.
> >
> > However, I'd use ddrescue
> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html>
rather
> > than dd to copy the HDD. If your HDD is starting to fail, ddrescue will
> > nevertheless recover whatever it is possible to recover. Be sure to use
it
> > with a "log file" so that it can resume if it is interrupted.
> >
> > Assuming you've booted from a CD, and your old HDD is /dev/sda, and your
> > USB-attached new or scratch HDD is /dev/sdb, and your thumbdrive's data
> > partition is /dev/sdc1, then do it like this:
> >
> > 1. verify which is which of the three drives:
> >
> > fdisk -lu
> >
> >
> > *Be very, very sure you don't mix them up, lest you destroy all your
> > data!!!*
> >
> > 2. copy the drive:
> >
> > mount /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1
> > cd /media/sdc1
> > mkdir rescue_hdd
> > cd rescue_hdd
> > ddrescue -B -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb drive.log
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <
> > trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 21 May 2015, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:
> > >
> > >  So I need help getting back in.
> > >>
> > >
> > > it's completely possible that your apps are stewed. However the user
code
> > > should have survived what you did.
> > >
> > > Before you start reinstalling and getting too far from the state the
> > > machine was in when it started having trouble, you might want to do
some
> > > sanity checks. Is your disk OK? (run the smartctl long test `smartctl
-t
> > > long /dev/sda`, from a livecd eg systemrescue disk).
> > >
> > > If it's OK make a dd copy of the disk, then start messing with the
disk
> > >
> > > Joe
> > --
>