I'm not and old ubuntu user so I'm here to question a problem. Yesterday I updated the Nvidia driver to 331 (as the reccomended updates say) and after restart I had a beatiful gift: the screen is similar to default (eg 800x600) and I don't have menu or icons desktop... Nothing, just the cursor. I tried to open with keyboard the Terminal but nothing happens. I tried to restore filesystems but didn't work... I really don't know what to do. As I read on other discussions, don't say me "give me logs" or something like that because I can't access my ubuntu desktop.
EDIT: I tried deleting Nvidia drivers and reinstalling, nothing changed Restarting often the computer brought the desktop back but on 800x600 and there wasn't the left menu and icons weren't all. Indeed I tried to change resoluton but there was jut 800x600. I tried to install boot-repair but I don't have a GUI to launch it. I don't know what to do!
So I did: reinstall unity and ubuntu desktop and reboot but nothing works. I can only access the first login screen (password) and after that I only see desktop and cursor. I really don't know what's the problem. By the way I can access terminal with ctrl alt f1 so if you need something just say me.
cd /etc/X11
then writedir
and hit enter. How manyxorg.conf
files do you see? Probably the Nvidia update left a empty xorg.conf file.