Starts up in terminal

[life in color]

I've been using Natty Narwhal on my computer for well over a year and decided to upgrade to Precise Pangolin. For a few months everything was fine, but recently (about) every other time I turn on my computer it boots to terminal rather than GUI. I tried <ctrl><alt><f7> when it booted to terminal and the result was

saned disabled; edit etc/default/saned
*checking battery state.... Please help.

[life in color]

This is a persistent problem which I fear could lead to me losing the ability to boot with GUI. Please help!

[tgalati4]

Open a terminal and look for error messages:


dmesg | more

Spacebar to page forward, "q" to quit. You might have a graphics chip issue that is dropping you to a terminal. Look for xorg errors:


more /var/log/Xorg.0.log
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Many hardware issues look like software issues, so you will need to spend some time try to separate them.

[ibjsb4]

You could also enable boot.log and see what comes up.


sudo gedit /etc/default/bootlogd

And change the No to a yes.

Then look in /var/log/boot.log next time it happens.