@olddos2er
The OP uses French keyboard. I guess the vertical bar is AltGr+6 for him.
@daviddixit
First, don't miss this post by sudodus.
Another thought.
Here you've had found that lightdm was running. Then after reinstalling Unity and reboot, it wasn't running anymore as you said:
The last message strikes me as somewhat strange as I would expect this question if you were trying to launch lightdm while there already was another display manager running. Could you please once more post the output of
Sorry if this sounds a bit foolhardy, but it isn't: I'm just wondering what's going on here. BTW, did you notice any changes in booting behaviour before reinstalling Unity and after that? Do you get the Grub menu displayed? Does the screen go purple? Do you hear the drumming sound?Code:ps -ef | dm$
The more information we can gather about the lightdm on your system the better. So, please run these commands and report the results:
Also, please post the output ofCode:lightdm -v stat /var/run/lightdm.pid sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
The first command is there just to make the user master a member of the group adm, thus giving him the right to read contents of /var/log/auth.log without sudo. It's the output of the second one that's relevant here.Code:sudo adduser master adm grep -o 'lightdm: .*' /var/log/auth.log | tail
Last edited by schragge; March 4th, 2013 at 04:25 PM.
^^^ also according to posts #107 / #108 the OP currently has no default-display-manager set and no lightdm.conf file - so a reinstall / dpkg-reconfigure of package lightdm might be in order?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post12536324
FYI just tried it on my 12.04 laptop and
creates a fresh /etc/X11/default-display-manager; however to get a fresh /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file I had toCode:sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Code:sudo dpkg-reconfigure unity-greeter
He said that it couldn't find the commands, not the files. He had a problem using chmod earlier so it could be a problem running cat too.
It seems like there is something going on besides just the login manager not running. Lots of things have been very strange throughout this thread.
But maybe if he reconfigures what you said he will at least be able to get to a desktop.
Last edited by Kopkins; March 2nd, 2013 at 07:08 PM.
Good morning all,
UPDATE and new problems !
I used the live cd to access save the contents of my hard drive without difficulty.
I then re-installed Ubuntu from another cd.
I now have Ubuntu 12.04.2LTS
Problem 1
I installed firefox, but I cannot play any type of on site video.
I then installed Chromium, still no video capabilities.
Problem 2
I have a Samsung 22" screen, and the imqge is anamorphosed...
Suggestions ?
Thank you,
David
Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras. You can do this from the Ubuntu Software Centre, or use the command:
You'll need to restart Firefox afterwards. Let us know if that works for you.Code:sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Always make regular backups of your data (and test them).
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I installed ubuntu restricted areas from the software centre.
It said that libav codec library, and libav utility library should be deleted, but I couldn´t find them, so I installed the restricted areas anyway, to no avail...
So ?!
Do you have Flash plugin?
And I ask you to have a second look at these tasks:Code:sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
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