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I'm installing lubuntu 10.4 on teen of a cousin. It installed but it goes to a place on a black screen and it wants me to login there. But it is like a terminal. How do I get to the desktop login to go into the desktop?

Asked by oocevin

I just installed lubuntu 10.4 and it boots to a black screen that acts like a terminal. How do I get past that and go to the login window to login into the desktop?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

log in then run:

sudo gdm start

You can now log in ok. Get fully updated using the repos as normal then retry. GDM should get updated and should show at startup

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#2

It does not go to the login window. It goes to a black screen and has the terminal #### $ I put sudo gdm start but it says no such command.
How to get past that black terminal screen to the login window to log in.

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#3

It does not go to the login window. It goes to a black screen and has the terminal #### $ I put sudo gdm start but it says no such command.
How to get past that black terminal screen to the login window to log in.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

try:

startx

after you log in.

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#5

I tried sudo startx it reacted but said before sending error. Then I just did startx and it reacted but went black blank.

I tried reinstall I burned it as slow as my working system would let me. I checked for errors. Now this popped up:

No protocol specified.giving up.
xinit: permission denided (errno 13)
unable to conect to x server
waiting for x server to shut down.
error setting MTRR (base =0x03000000, type = 1)
Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)

What ever that means.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Don't use 'sudo startx', I instructed to run: startx only.

The black screen can be fixed with this:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#7

I tried that also. But I tried to install again and it took.
It's an older PC.

Thank you actionparsnip

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

No worries, get updated and you'll be ok. If the problem persists you can add the boot option permanently. Let me know if you need this and I can advise.

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#9

With the same system this is what is going on now:

    Ubuntu
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    Question #122709

Asked by oocevin on 21 seconds ago

I installed lubuntu updated it and now it will not shut down or will it reboot when clicked to do so.

I can force it to turn off and it will reboot. But it will not turn of or restart. It will go black.

I went to work and when I came home it was still running but in the blank window if you want to
call it.

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#10

With the same system this is what is going on now:

    Ubuntu
    Questions
    Question #122709

Asked by oocevin on 21 seconds ago

I installed lubuntu updated it and now it will not shut down or will it reboot when clicked to do so.

I can force it to turn off and it will reboot. But it will not turn of or restart. It will go black.

I went to work and when I came home it was still running but in the blank window if you want to
call it.

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Best Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#11

@oocevin
The problem with shutting down and rebooting is likely to be a separate problem from the one you originally posted about in this question. If you are still experiencing it and you have not done so already, you should post a new question to get help with that problem. Assuming you choose to do that, you should mark this question as Solved.

- - -

By the way, for future sufferers of the original problem described here (no GUI), I have some information to add, in case the advice posted so far doesn't work for someone:

Lubuntu uses LXDE rather than GNOME, so its display manager is LXDM rather than GDM. gdm is probably not installed. Try running:

sudo lxdm

If that doesn't give you a usable GUI, then update the computer from the Terminal (you may want to connect the computer to the Internet with an Ethernet cable, as it is somewhat more complicated to get wireless up and running in Ubuntu without a GUI):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

That installs all available updates. (It does not upgrade to a newer release version--if you have Lubuntu 10.04 when you run those commands, you will *not* get Lubuntu 10.10 just by running them.)

After updating, reboot (either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete or by running "sudo reboot" without the quotes--*not* by using the computer's power button) and see if the updates fixed the problem. If they didn't, you might try enabling the Lubuntu PPA, updating, and rebooting to see if there is any improvement.

And of course, if Lubuntu 10.04 is not specifically needed, then installing a different version might (or might not) work better. 10.10 and 11.04 are also currently supported.

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oocevin (ccct007) said : 		#12

Thanks Eliah Kagan, that solved my question.