I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition. Suddenly today /home became corrupted and I was prompted to run fsck manually. I ran fsck -y /home and rebooted the system. The system booted but I got no GUI interface (GNOME session) but a black screen with a user prompt instead. Any tricks here to start my system normally? Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT:1
The error were similar to the the following(may be with some mistakes as I had to type it manually):
machine1 login: root
password:
at login Sun Jan 16 15:30:46 IST 2011 on tty1
EXT3-fs error (devie sda1): ext3_lookup :deleted inode referenced
aborting journal on device sda1
Remounting filesystem read-only
root@machine1:~# startx
ktemp: failed to create file via template `/tmp/serverauth.xxxxxxxxxxx: Read-only file
/usr/bin/startx: line 157: cannot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file
xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
/usr/bin/startx: line 173: cannnot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file
xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
/usr/bin/startx: line 173: cannnot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file
X: cannot stat /tmp/.x11-unix (No such file or directory), aborting giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to xserver
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
Just running fsck -y /, or fsck -y /dev/sda1 fixed the issue and system started gnome as usual. The best way of running fsck would be booting the system from live cd or usb stick. But before running fsck, backing up necessary data is also to be considered mandatory.
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