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trying to boot into xubuntu

Asked by nick verbeek

i tried booting into xubuntu inside terminal i typed shell than sudo startxfce4 and it wont boot into xubuntu and its irritating me because i want to play my game and need it fixed for stuff i trying out someone help me please? what do i do?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

There seems to be some misunderstanding. You have to BOOT into Ubuntu, you cannot start the (X)Ubuntu operating system from inside a terminal.

Please provide more information about your system:
What hardware, what other operating systems, etc.
When you switch on the system, what happens, what do you see on screen?
If you type the commands
uname -a
lsb_release -crid
in a terminal window, what output do you get?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Why are you running xfce as root!? It is massively unsecured and not advised at all.

If you install a desktop manager like xdm or lightdm, you can use a graphical login and the system will work as you expect.

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