Nothing coming up

[mbrowning2000]

Hi, I just installed Gnome 3 on ubuntu 11.04 and Unity started messing up, so I disabled it. then when I rebooted I have nothing but my wallpaper come up and I cant start terminal or nothing. ALT F2 dont work. idk what to do at this point. I have it on Auto login (like an idiot) so i cant choose a session.

please help :confused:

EDIT: its Fixed, but i cant mark it as fixed. Dont know how :facepalm:

[dodo3773]

Hi, I just installed Gnome 3 on ubuntu 11.04 and Unity started messing up, so I disabled it. then when I rebooted I have nothing but my wallpaper come up and I cant start terminal or nothing. ALT F2 dont work. idk what to do at this point. I have it on Auto login (like an idiot) so i cant choose a session.

please help :confused:

Can you get to a console session by hitting
ctrl+alt+f1 or f2 f3 whatever? If so you should be able to fix it from there. Are you using gdm for your login manager? If so, there should be a file somewhere (at least there used to be) in

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

Where you may be able to change

AutomaticLoginEnable=true

to

AutomaticLoginEnable=false


If you are using lightdm there should be a file here as well

/etc/lightdm.conf

[mbrowning2000]

Well, i got it fixed....some how. I typed "sudo apt-get upgrade" and it let me pick a session. I picked Gnome. Gnome 3 pulls up just fine, and so far is running good. Thanks for the info dodo3773.

[dodo3773]

Well, i got it fixed....some how. I typed "sudo apt-get upgrade" and it let me pick a session. I picked Gnome. Gnome 3 pulls up just fine, and so far is running good. Thanks for the info dodo3773.

Glad you figured it out. Did you log in to a tty? Is that how you handled it?

[mbrowning2000]

Yea, I hit ctrl+alt+f6 and it got me in to a shell.