sudo apt-get install gnome-session

[daviddixit]

These don´t work. I keep coming back to the terminal, even after rebooting the computer.

[audiomick]

These don´t work. I keep coming back to the terminal, even after rebooting the computer.

Did you notice this?

If you just have the terminal when starting your machine, there might be a little bit of troubleshooting that's needed. You can try:

startx

I'm afraid I don't quite see exactly what your problem is. Is it that you cannot get to a graphical user interfacr, a desktop? That all you can get is a command line environment? In that case, the comment from lisati does apply.

[ikt]

These don´t work. I keep coming back to the terminal, even after rebooting the computer.

Did you recently install any video drivers?

You may be able to get into 'recovery mode' if you hold down the shift key just before ubuntu starts to load.

[daviddixit]

I haven´t recently installed anything.

I tried holding the shift key down, but it still comes back to the terminal.

[schragge]

@all
It's started in this thread.

@daviddixit
Please answer my question about .ICEauthority there.

[Paddy Landau]

David, you have posted this in the Absolute Beginners section, so I presume you are new to Ubuntu.

We are feeling a little confused. Please give us a bit of background: Did you recently install Ubuntu? Which version of Ubuntu are you using? What happens when you boot? Did you have a graphical user interface before, or did you always get only a terminal (by the way, without the graphical interface, it's called a console)?

EDIT: I missed schragge's post.

[Paddy Landau]

the ñ doesn´t have the n, just the wavy line.

The wavy line ("~") is called a tilde (I believe it is un tilde in French). It represents your "home", i.e. where all your personal files are saved. I could be wrong, but I think you'll find the tilde on your keyboard using Shift+2.

[daviddixit]

I tried startx only to be told: user not authorised to run the X server, aborting.

I am certainly a beginner, but I have been using Ubuntu for over a year, but without having any problems!

Yesterday evening, I turned my computer to find a window: could not update ICEauthority file/home/. ICEauthority

I opened a console and tried : sudo apt-get install gnome-session

It did its dance and finished with the word: master@mastermind:~$
Waiting for a command.
I tried a variety of things, then again : sudo -i apt-get dist-upgrade

It said no updates, no new installations, nothing to delete, no updates.

Now, I cannot get out of the console and reboot normally to see a desktop.

[schragge]

So once again, please run

stat .ICEauthority

and post the output here. Alternatively, you can post the output of

ls -l .ICEauthority # <- it's the small letter L

I suppose the file permissions and/or ownership of .ICEauthority are wrong and want to see what they are.


At least, try this

sudo chown master: .ICEauthority
sudo chmod 0600 .ICEauthority

Then reboot.

[Paddy Landau]

Now, I cannot get out of the console and reboot normally to see a desktop.

• You go to consoles using Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2, F3, F4, F5 or F6).
• The GUI is in Ctrl+Alt+F7, so press that key-combination to return there.
• From the console, you can reboot with:

  sudo reboot now