Hi
Originally Posted by
movieman
It's booting to a normal virtual console with a login prompt, and I can log in there and run 'startx' to start X. I've no idea how X is normally started, since it just boots up and there's some kind of login window on the screen (the default, I guess).
It's an i5 with Nvidia GT330M and Ubuntu 12.04. I normally log into XFCE.
As mentioned, if I choose the old kernel from grub, it boots fine. If I choose the new one it boots to the text console.
X is started by Lightdm in 12.04 and later. It looks like that is not starting for some reason.
Boot into the bad kernel, log into the VT and type
Code:
sudo service lightdm start
Does this start the login manager ?
If it does not start it may be worth looking at the logs to see why.
If it does start then we have to identify why it's not starting as part of the boot process.
Kind regards
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