Black Screen/Reinstall GUI?

[corrigun]

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.

[ralphy]

After Ctrl Alt F1 and log in... can you load the desktop with startx to use the machine normally.

[corrigun]

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

[ralphy]

hmm... try the basic first:

Code:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
sudo rm /home/[USERNAME]/.Xauthority*
reboot

[corrigun]

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?

[corrigun]

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.

[ralphy]

Question, when in Terminal... can't you launch startx not even as root?

[corrigun]

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-

Code:

sudo startx

And the desktop started. If anyone has any ideas how to automate this I would appreciate the input.

[ralphy]

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-

Code:

sudo startx

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

[corrigun]

I did remove it. It was completely empty.