Ubuntu Won't load GUI, only text?

[Woofington]

First off I have never been too great with Ubuntu but I have been using it for several years now. I had 10.04 and upgraded to 10.10 last night. The installation and download all went smooth and there were no errors. It asked me to restart and I did but now it is acting funky.

Instead of loading my new 10.10 normally it leaves me at a text screen where it says:

"lucian-laptop login:"
its basically a command line prompt. I can enter my credentials, it will then ask me for my password, and then it leaves me at this:

"Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

0 packages can be updated
0 updates are security updates

lucian@lucian-laptop:`$ "

I can type in commands at this point but I don't have any idea what to do. I just want to get to my normal GUI and use it like I normally use it. I need this laptop for school so this problem is quite crippling at the moment.

And my laptops names is "lucian-laptop" and my username is lucian, not that you guys didn't already figure that out

Any help would be greately appreciated, again I am not too great at this.

edit: Oh I tried booting in recovery mode and it will get to the point where it will ask me what to do and if I say resume it just dumps me back to the prompt.

Also once it did a disk check and then again after completing this dumped me back to the prompt.

If I shut it down I at least see that pretty splash shut down logo.

[Rubi1200]

At the prompt try

startx

(may require the use of sudo) or

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

See if that helps.

[Woofington]

At the prompt try

startx

(may require the use of sudo) or

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

See if that helps.

I get this:

"Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Please consult the X.org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information

ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
giving up
xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error"

and then I am back at that prompt again.

edit: Whoops and this above the previous stuff:

(EE) intel(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer.
(EE) intel(0): couldn't allocate initial framebuffer.

[Woofington]

Anyone know how to help me? I need it for class today.

[Woofington]

Someone must know!

[feroxy]

if you have an older nvidia graphics card, it could be due to this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/626974
The only thing that has worked for me at this point is to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver to "nv" (you could also try "nouveau" but it didn't work for me)

[Woofington]

if you have an older nvidia graphics card, it could be due to this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/626974
The only thing that has worked for me at this point is to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver to "nv" (you could also try "nouveau" but it didn't work for me)

How do I edit that? What command should I use?

[feroxy]

Be sure you have one of the above graphics card. I only give these instructions in that case.

backup the original file:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

then

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

find section "device", and change Driver from "nvidia" to "nv" (or try "nouveau" which is preferred if it works for you). control-o to save, then control-x to exit. And reboot.
Hopefully that will get you up and running in a gui (albeit slower and probably glitchier than before). Keep an eye on that bug report to check when the nvidia drivers get updated and re-enable them "administration/additonal drivers" when they are.

[Woofington]

Be sure you have one of the above graphics card. I only give these instructions in that case.

backup the original file:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

then

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

find section "device", and change Driver from "nvidia" to "nv" (or try "nouveau" which is preferred if it works for you). control-o to save, then control-x to exit. And reboot.
Hopefully that will get you up and running in a gui (albeit slower and probably glitchier than before). Keep an eye on that bug report to check when the nvidia drivers get updated and re-enable them "administration/additonal drivers" when they are.

I don't even have a viarable for driver:

"Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection"

That's all I have. There are sections for Monitor, and Screen above it.

[feroxy]

I don't even have a viarable for driver:

"Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection"

That's all I have. There are sections for Monitor, and Screen above it.

Hmm. Different from mine then. I did otherwise encounter the exact same situation that you describe after the upgrade since I had the nvidia proprietary driver installed. but my device section looked like

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Default Device"
        Driver  "nvidia"
        Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
EndSection