er, that first command should be "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm".
On 12-10-11 03:00 PM, Shawn wrote:
You are getting past the boot sequence and then encountering problems
with the desktop environment. I've seen this sort of thing before. Most
recently I just updated to the latest version (12.04) on a separate hard
drive. In the past, I would delete the xorg.conf file (rename it
really) and let the system recreate it.
At the very least, you should be able to do CTRL-ALT-F1 (twice) to get
to a command prompt. There you can do everything you need. You might
try to simply restart the graphical environment:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
(if you are using KDE and the KDE login window, then replace "gdm" with
"kdm")
I haven't had to mess with the X-Server config for quite some time, so
I'm not sure what Ubuntu is doing there these days. But, in the past I
would do
sudo dpkg-reconfig gdm
(or "kdm" for the KDE users) This would often fix the graphical
environment.
Hope that helps.
Shawn
On 12-10-11 02:38 PM, Richard Carter wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I checked the apt history but nothing seemed amiss.
But I didn't really know what to look for.
Robin
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Dafydd Crosby <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hmm, you might want to check your apt history to see if something
got updated in the background that is causing the problem.
-Dafydd
On 10/11/2012 12:06 PM, Richard Carter wrote:
This morning for the first time ubuntu 12.04 LTS wouldn't start.
Here are the details.
My desktop PC has 2 drives: a 500GB HD and a 256GB SSD. Ubuntu
12.04 is installed on the SSD and Debian 6.0 is installed on
the HD. Up until now both worked well: Debian still works well.
When I boot to Ubuntu the system gets to the point where the
wallpaper to be used for the desktop is displayed together with
a small window asking for user name and password. When I enter
the password I get the message ' Failed to load session
"cairo-dock" ' and a log out button is displayed. I get the
same response when I try the other log in options available in
the small window.
I then started in recovery mode and tried: fsck, clean, dpkg(fix
broken packages) and grub(update boot loader). None of these
had any effect.
I would be grateful for advice.
Robin
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