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rob150588
February 8th, 2009, 04:33 PM
Afternoon.

Just upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 using "update-manager -d", ran through all the instructions, then rebooted the machine.

Now whenever Ubuntu boots it just boots into the terminal. No graphical interface whatsoever.

Whenever I try and run anything from the terminal (gparted, gedit, or whatever) it just displays the error "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display...and just punts me back to the command line.:?

If anyone can help me it'd be much appreciated. And if you do know please speak slowly to me...

Cheers in advance.

homemadejam
February 8th, 2009, 04:35 PM
Hey,
Does the startx command start up the GUI?

Jam

rob150588
February 8th, 2009, 04:40 PM
...erm, I'm not sure what that is...

How can I tell ?

rob150588
February 8th, 2009, 04:42 PM
Oh wait, I just typed that in (had a blonde moment there, sorry).

It says: Fatal Error:
no screens found
giving up (lol)
xinit: connection refused
xinit: no such process