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Installed 8.10 will not load Gnome desktop

Asked by sarasjain

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 with Windows XP on single hard disk. When I boot Grub runs OK and offers me Windows XP, which runs fine, and also Ubuntu. Choosing Ubuntu produces logon screen successfully. After logging in the screen blanks to the default light brown background with mouse arrow. Mouse arrow remains movable. Nothing else works. Nothing else happens. I waited up to 15 minutes for something to happen, but no joy. I am assuming it is simply that Gnome hasn't loaded, so no desktop is becoming available. Is there some special hot key I can press to force Gnome to load? Is there some command-line approach I can use to get Ubuntu to load the Gnome desktop. Does this all mean that Ubuntu installed, but without Gnome? The same installer disc (downloaded ISO from ubuntu.net) has worked on other machines. Help! My computer configuration is Intel pentium 4 2.4GHz, 512MB DDR Ram , 160 GB HDD & intel D845GVSR Motherboard purchased in 2004

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Reinstall ubuntu desktop and try

Course to a terminal (Press cntrl + alt +f1 or f2 in the login screen) Or boot up in recovery mode (Usually 2nd option in grub menu)

and give the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop

and

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

and reboot your system..

sudo reboot

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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Sushain (razz-sushain) said : 		#2

same problem here.... i am afraid sir above solution didn't work

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Andy Ruddock (andy-ruddock) said : 		#3

If you switch to a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and type

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

then the display manager should restart. If you then switch back to the terminal there may be error messages which give a clue as to why it won't start properly.

Typing

dmesg |less

will allow you to see the startup messages, there may be a clue there.
There're also the log files in /var/log/gdm which may give some idea.

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sarasjain (sarasjain) said : 		#4

hi
i install the ubuntu 8.10 in low graphics mode and it works properly but visual effects are not running

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guidemeintheeyesofblindness@yahoo.com (guidemeintheeyesofblindness) said : 		#5

I got the same problem but when I type sudo apt-get install ubuntu desktop it says "ubuntu desktop is not available or reffered to by a different package.