No Desktop after Power Failure

[p310don]

I got home today to find my PC turned off. I assume there was a power failure. After turning it back on, it ran through the auchk on the savefile, but I cannot get a desktop. Instead it only gets to a prompt.

The image attached is what I get to. If I press enter it gets me a prompt. If I run xorgwizard it doesn't work, just comes back to the same unable to connect to x server error. I don't really want to start again, which I've done before with similar issues in the past.

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[dogcat]

Just guessing.
Maybe try to mount the savefile and rename /etc/X11 directory to X11.bak , then save and try to boot using the modified savefile. It should rebuild the missing X11 directory during boot to something that loads XServer.

But if the problem is permission issues somewhere else then that won't work.

[hikohan]

Boot in rescue RAM mode, restore PuppySave if you have.

eg:

/mnt/home/fossapupfrugal/fossapup64save/

file system damaged while power loss.

[smokey01]

@p310don I am getting a similar error message when booting UEFI from a small USB drive.

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This is my rEFInd stanza.

menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume FATDOG_LIVE
loader vmlinuz
initrd initrd-nano
options "mergeinitrd1=device:uuid:343B-5FF5:/initrd savefile=direct:uuid:343B-5FF5:fd64save.ext4 waitdev=5" #works
}

The following stanza works fine.

menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume FATDOG_LIVE
loader vmlinuz
initrd initrd
options "savefile=direct:uuid:343B-5FF5:fd64save.ext4 waitdev=5"
}