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OldTimeyJunk
April 29th, 2011, 11:07 PM
Hello!
Recently I installed the Matchbox desktop enviroment to try it out as I was going to use it on an embedded device (not any more though). When I Rebooted my PC, Matchbox came up (I didn't need to login). I unistalled Matchbox on Matchbox (and watched it break), restarted my PC and now GDM (Login manager) and Gnome won't show up after booting giving me a completely blank screen.

I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS.

What Do I Do?

PLEASE HELP!!!

Josh Robertson
Krytarik
April 30th, 2011, 09:48 AM
Try reinstalling "gdm":
- boot into "recovery mode -> root shell prompt with networking"
- run:

apt-get install --reinstall gdm
Note: No need to use 'sudo' because you will already be root.
- reboot by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del

Greetings.
OldTimeyJunk
May 2nd, 2011, 06:50 PM
Too late! I figured it out. I booted up in Failsafe Ubuntu and it worked by starting X.
Krytarik
May 2nd, 2011, 07:53 PM
Too late! I figured it out. I booted up in Failsafe Ubuntu and it worked by starting X.
"startx", why not?! ;-)

See here if you want to always boot to the CLI instead of GDM, but without the need to choose "recovery mode":
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9644518#post9644518