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Machine Boots to a terminal screen

Asked by Virgil Jones

My son machine boots to a black screen with a command prompt. It looks like it is in terminal mode. How can we get it back to a graphic screen? It is running 6.06. We tried reloading ubuntu and get the same results. Any suggestions?

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Stephen Gentle (stephen-gentle) said : 		#1

There's some suggestions here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8351

It's probably best to just try to restart GDM first: "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" (without the quotes).

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Viet Hung (vvhung) said : 		#2

I think you may have problem with the gdm service which allow users to login graphically. And that may due to the system could not identify the graphics card or you have choose to turn off the gdm service.
Can you try with the newest Ubuntu 7.04?

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David Murray (davmury) said : 		#3

my xubuntu boots to a terminal screen, prompting for login and password. I enter the login "bob" and password "bob", then it leaves me at a terminal screen with "bob@ubuntuhome:~$"
How do I get to the graphic user interface from here?
This was a text based installation from alternate Xubuntu x86 iso

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