Hi All,
LL3.2 on an HP Proliant Server.
After a few updates and a reboot I now find myself at a black screen (no mouse pointer). The yellow splash screen comes up for a few seconds but then goes to black. I can crtl/alt/f1 to a prompt and login but no GUI. The server is running as I have still access to Web based apps running on Apache and I can still login to Webmin.
Is there a way to reinstall the GUI and/or login routine?
Thanks.
After Ctrl Alt F1 and log in... can you load the desktop with startx to use the machine normally.
I could not. I did not grab all the details but here is the gist of it-
Server terminated with error(1)
Giving up
Unable to connect to X server Connection Refused
Server Error
hmm... try the basic first:
Code:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo rm /home/[USERNAME]/.Xauthority*
reboot
Same result.
This may be a dumb question but can't I just install another GUI? Like Gnome for example?
Also could I just do a "dirty install" of LL like you can with Windows?
I don't know if this will help but this is the log referenced during the fail. I have attached it as a txt file.
Question, when in Terminal... can't you launch startx not even as root?
So for what it is worth I got back to my desktop. I noticed in the error log that none of the fonts were found. I reinstalled them but still no joy.
Then actually the above reply that mentioned root for some reason prompted me to try-
And the desktop started. If anyone has any ideas how to automate this I would appreciate the input.
(01-04-2017, 02:47 PM)corrigun link Wrote: [ -> ]So for what it is worth I got back to my desktop. I noticed in the error log that none of the fonts were found. I reinstalled them but still no joy.
Then actually the above reply that mentioned root for some reason prompted me to try-
And the desktop started. If anyone has any ideas how to automate this I would appreciate the input.
From previous post... did you remove the .Xauthority file as recommended under laytonj account?
Code:
sudo rm /home/laytonj/.Xauthority*
sudo reboot
I did remove it. It was completely empty.