Ubuntu 9.10 Fails to Boot After Installing Samba CIFS

[Tom H]

> No, I cannot boot from recovery mode - same failure is reported. I don't remember exactly what parts of samba I installed, but I know I installed smbfs. I was thinking that I could try to delete some programs or scripts that are being run that cause the boot failure.
>
> Here are the error messages:
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> mount error: could not resolve address from winpsdnsprd12.acct.upmchs.net: Name or service not known
> No ip address specified and hostname not found
> <unknown program name>(509)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: "/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed."
> <unkown program name>(507)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.
>
> I had mounted the winpsdnsprd12.acct.upmchs.net share using a script I had written. I don't understand how the system knows its name when I'm not manually running the script.
>
> I don't understand what program or script is running and I don't understand how to remove it. I can't get to a shell terminal

I don't understand how you can't boot into recovery mode but since
it's not working you should either boot from a live cd and mount the
install (simpler) or edit the grub menu to add "init=/bin/bash" to the
end of the "linux ..." line (more of a PIA because you will have to
remount the root partition as rw in order to change anything and there
are other inconveniences) and disable your script (or an fstab smbfs
entry or ...).

The X11 error looks like you are trying to launch X without the rights
to do so, for example as root.

The "K..." must mean that you are using KDE and might more
knowledgeable responses if you posted at kubuntu-users or the kde list
at kde.org.