OK, Try this
Log in from the console, then what happens if you run:
sudo startx
or
sudo service lightdm start
or
sudo service lightdm restart
or
sudo service gdm start
or
sudo service gdm restart
If any of those start the GUI desktop let me know … and we’ll go through the log fies and see if we can spot anything.
If not, we’ll probably have to go in with a LiveCD, and get the logs.
sudo startx is the only command that worked. the GUI restarted and complained there was no free space on the disk and asked me to clean the wast bin . I did so but still no boot tried the command again but just got to a pink screen.
log into the console … and run:
df -i
and
df -h
and post the output.
You could also try clearing the installed package cache:
sudo apt-get clean
see if that’s cleared enough room to boot.
It seems there was 40GB of log files on the system. once they were cleaned the system booted normally.
i have tried to find a program that cleans the junk from the hard drive but have not found anything easy to use.
OK, that’s far too big (my logs are currently 8.6MB) … either something is screaming for your attention … check what the logs are telling you
Or
If the logs are older than 4 weeks … logrotate may be broken.
BTW, have you un-commented that line in fstab … there’s probably nothing wrong with it … as I said we wre chasing phantoms created by lack of drive space.
put the line back as it was and booted OK…