Startup fail -Always goes to command line Error: Cannot launch.-in Zorin/ubuntu
 

Using GNOME2.X (default) and Fluxbox on ZorinOS4(upgraded from ubuntu10.10 to 11.04)


When I boot up everything goes fine right up until the splash screen. Once I get to that, Screen goes black for 3 seconds or so, Then the command line pops up, Asks me for LOGIN: and PASSWORD:, and after I enter that it starts fsck then says something like:
If needed I can reboot my machine and write the whole thing out and post it back.
sda5 shows it is filesystem, ext4, 25g ,mounted at /,Partition type Linux(0x83), partition flags: -
SO after it does a force check it brings me back to hevithan:$ ... I tried typing fluxbox to run that instead of GNOME and it says Error: failed to launch. Xserver is running.. So I reboot, and select: ubuntu-linux version(recovery mode). Look at the startup log it says what I already got in command: Failed to boot XServer is already running.
So I select Restart X and it works fine after that.

Things I have downloaded/installed recently:
*Used additional drivers to enable propitiatory drivers.
*Thunderbird
*Simdock (Which I didn't like) so...
*Docky
*A comic book reader (I forget the name but it was in the repos)
and a few upgrades to software/programs I already had.

So my questions are:

Why is X trying to start 2 times?

Why is it forcing FSCK every time?

Could anything I have downloaded changed my GRUB or Kernel info and confused the system?

is there anymore info needed?


Thanks for any help you guys can offer.

Problem solved, here is what it turned out to be:

Apparently the proprietary drivers that got installed, where NVIDIA. I have an intel chip set. Everytime NVIDIA tried to load it's module and screen setting, it forced a check because it couldn't find anything for NVIDIA. I booted in recovery, Changed configuration. # commented out the NVIDIA section, and changed NVIDIA to intel in the display section. Which led me to a new problem, that I will start a new thread for.