HELP! No X on startup

[Peter Lewis]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 at 11:21:05 D. R. Evans wrote:
> We just had a long power outage. When the power returned, all my
> machines came back fine except my Kubuntu main desktop machine. It is
> rebooting, but X isn't starting and I'm being presented with a
> non-graphical prompt.
>
> This machine has been running dapper fine for about 18 months, and I
> haven't changed anything to do with X for about 6 months (which is
> when I loaded the then-current nvidia driver). It's always worked
> fine, and I have no idea why it's suddenly decided to go
> non-graphical.
>
> I haven't the foggiest idea what to do. Can anyone please help?

Are you able to get hold of the contents of the file:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

and post it to this list?

That should shed some light on why X didn't start...

Pete.