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On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 12:41 +0100, Kevin Lucas wrote: > 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 get a lank screen Ctrl Alt F1 may give you a command > line in which you can see logs /var/log/messages, syslog, dmessg. etc Typos again! If you can bring it to Minions I can sort the data out and most probbably recover you lost thunderbird data. > > -- > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > -- ________________________________________________________________________ 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