Upgraded from 5.04 (via Synaptic): No GUI, But Can Still Log In

[Wolfey]

I originally posted about this in the Users and Groups: Cannot Log In with Newly-Created User topic in the Desktop Support forum for Ubuntu 5.04. However, this issue was (somewhat) unrelated to the topic's original issue, so I thought it would be more appropriate to mention it in this forum instead, especially since I'm technically running Ubuntu 5.10 now:

I just tried upgrading to Breezy (following the instructions provided in the BreezyUpgrade Wiki, upgrading via Synaptic), and after restarting, I don't have a graphical interface anymore I have absolutely no idea what went wrong - I followed those instructions, restarted the laptop, and when I try to boot into Ubuntu, it brings up a blue screen that says: I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem? <Yes> <No> But I cannot select either of those, as it immediately brings up two more lines, with white text on a black background: Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" lc2464 tty2 lc2464 login: I can still log in with the root username/password, but am left at the command line - I don't know what can be done to restore what was broken as a result of the upgrade

[Wolfey]

(Bumping topic...)

Has anyone experienced the issue I have described here?

have you tried

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Wolfey]

I just did, now...But even after answering all of the questions it asked, followed by a restart, it had no effect on this problem

(I also recently noticed this line when it was starting up:

/dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

That is the only one mounted as read-only; the rest are mounted with read and write access...Could that have anything to do with the problem I have here?)

[Herman]

Here's a link to a previous thread with some possible solutions to a similar problem, will any of the suggestions in there be applicable?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...screen+install

[Wolfey]

Originally Posted by Herman Here's a link to a previous thread with some possible solutions to a similar problem, will any of the suggestions in there be applicable? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...screen+install

Except for sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (which I already tried out earlier, without success), nothing I tried there has any effect on this problem

Originally Posted by dcstar Looks similar to people who still have incompatible (5.04) Nvidia video drives in their system.

But my laptop uses ATI video drivers (ATI Radeon 9700, according to my laptop's specifications)...Could I have installed the nVidia drivers by mistake, and if so, could that be causing this issue?

Originally Posted by dcstar Manually change all of the /etc/apt/sources.list repository entries from "hoary" to "breezy" and do another apt upgrade (can't remember the command line for this).

Would it be possible to edit that file with the use of a text editor on a live CD? If not, I'll have to do this from the command line (if it's even possible), and I have no idea how I'd edit the file there

[EDIT: Fixed a few coding mistakes I made earlier when typing up this reply.]

[dcstar]

Originally Posted by Wolfey (Bumping topic...) Has anyone experienced the issue I have described here?

Looks similar to people who still have incompatible (5.04) Nvidia video drives in their system.

Manually change all of the /etc/apt/sources.list repository entries from "hoary" to "breezy" and do another apt upgrade (can't remember the command line for this).