My computer for some reason is no longer booting into the GUI. It sends me straight to the command line. How do I get it to launch the GUI and how do I get it to launch the GUI by default on startup? I'm using Lucid Lynx.
2 Answers
This may not serve as an answer (but I can't comment yet):
when u login on terminal type startx
and see if that starts GUI for you or as Roland said try sudo start gdm
Once your GUI starts you can provide more details easily as Oli is expecting to fix starting directly in GUI.
If none of those work then you may have to work on terminal and provide more details.
Best luck :)
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I had to use "sudo startx" since I wasn't logging in as root. I am using an NVidia GeForce GTX 460. Hopefully the proprietary drivers will help. I'll try that and report back. Sep 9, 2012 at 3:10
I was able to get the login screen by running: sudo start lightdm
This was in Ubuntu 12.04.1 though so YMMV.
sudo apt-get install pastebinit && pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and edit your question to include the URL that that gives you (it is case sensitive)sudo start gdm
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