On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:41:18AM +1000, linley caetan wrote:
> running Ubuntu warty in i386
> after some recent updates  using apt (for alsa related items)
> Ubuntu reboots in CLI mode , no graphic login screen.

Sounds like gdm has gone walkabout.  Do you have a file /etc/init.d/gdm?  If
so, do you have a symlink /etc/rc2.d/S??gdm (where the two question marks
should be digits)?  If you've got both of those, I'm stumped, but your gdm
config has probably lunched itself.

> Launching X from CLI  gives a grey screen with "X" cursor and nothing 

If you just run the command 'X' from the command line, that's what you get. 
Try 'startx' to start a GUI session.

> else. There is no way to proceed except restarting the machine.

Today's message brought to you by the keys "Ctrl", "Alt", and "Backspace". 
(That'll kill the X server, and take you back to the command prompt from
whence you came).  Alternately, Ctrl-Alt-F1 will give you back your virtual
console without whacking the X server.

- Matt

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