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I am new to Ubuntu, used Mandriva for years but that was a long time ago. I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a HPtx1000. Everything was working fine but recently when I boot up I don't get a login screen.

If I hit CTRL+ALT+F1 and thenCTRL+ALT+F7 I get the login screen and everything is fine.

Any clues as to why the login screen isn't automatically coming up?

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Try to reconfigure lightdm, it may fix your issue

  • Open terminal(CTRL+ALT+T) and execute following command:

    sudo dpkg-reconfigre lightdm
    
  • Then chose lightdm from the list.

  • Restart your system:

    sudo reboot now
    

It may fix your issue. If doesn't fix then follow 2nd Method.

Method 2:

Installing a new display manager can fix your problem. Steps to install GDM(a display manager much like lightdm):

  • Open terminal(CTRL+ALT+T) and execute following commands:

    sudo apt-get install gdm
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
    

    then chose gdm from the list. And restart your system:

    sudo reboot now
    

If you tried a lot and nothing seems to work then at least you can give it a try.. Hope these methods solve your issue. Reply for further assistance.

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  • thank you. i don't know what I did but the problem seems to be gone. All i did was open a few .conf files searching for something useful but I didn't change anything. The only other thing I did was change my wireless router channel from 1 to 9 to resolve an auto-connect problem but that shouldn't have anything to do with it. If it starts doing this again, I will try your suggestions.
    – frank
    Sep 7, 2013 at 20:00
  • Quite strange.. Any way it works for you, what would be better than that.. ;) Sep 7, 2013 at 20:04
  • @SauravKumar I'm using 10.04,it didn't work, Is there any different package for 10.04...?
    – Naive
    Oct 18, 2013 at 4:14
  • @Kummi_10: Ubuntu 10.04 it not supported any more.. I recommend you to install 12.04 LTS which has support till 2017. And in 10.04, I really don't know which display manager is used.. :( Oct 18, 2013 at 10:34

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