xfce startup screen...just blue ?

[bigvoo]

ok, this is odd, but i re-installed ubuntu 7.10 from disk this morning. it's working great, I love it but... the startup screen is just blue ( there is no mouse logo/task bar anything. I have to launch from right clicking the mouse, which gives the drop down window. Also, when i installed, it seems to have devided the old partition, ( I asked it to use whole disk ) and kept the old ( corrupted ubuntu ). any way to recover that space without doing a complete re-installl again. thanks.

[devils casper]

Execute this

sudo fdisk -l
df -h
cat /etc/fstab

Post output here.

[bigvoo]

thanks casper, im going to have to write it in, as it won't paste here for some reason. bbl

[bigvoo]

moxo@moxo-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2448 19663528+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4561 4863 2433847+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 * 2449 4560 16964640 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 4659 4863 1646631 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 4561 4658 787122 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 519 MB, 519962112 bytes
8 heads, 55 sectors/track, 2308 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 440 * 512 = 225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbc85c825

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2309 507775+ 6 FAT16
moxo@moxo-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19G 3.2G 15G 18% /
varrun 1009M 92K 1009M 1% /var/run
varlock 1009M 0 1009M 0% /var/lock
udev 1009M 88K 1009M 1% /dev
devshm 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1009M 34M 976M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1 496M 162M 335M 33% /media/POINT&SHOOT
moxo@moxo-desktop:~$ cat/etc/fstab
bash: cat/etc/fstab: No such file or directory

[devils casper]

You have two SWAP partitions and two ext3 partitions. Its very easy to delete two unused partitions.

There is a space betweeb cat and /etc/fstab.
Or open /etc/fstab file in Gedit and paste its contents here.