Black Screen/Reinstall GUI?

[corrigun]

Sorry for the delay. I got a bit of a flu bug and was out sick.

I'll try that but other than that is there an easy way to just automate the sudo startx thing?

[ralphy]

Well, permissions look fine too

See if booting from a previous kernel works for you. To boot from a previous kernel, just press and hold SHIFT key while the computer is booting (right after POST) before GRUB starts loading. This will bring grub options. Select Advanced Options and an older kernel from the kernel list.

[corrigun]

Groups laytonj yields-
laytonj: laytonj adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare

ls -la /dev/tty0 yields-
crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 0 Jan 4 09:18  /dev/tty0

I have not tried booting with a previous kernel. I'm not really sure how to do that.

[ralphy]

Can you post the output of

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groups laytonj
and

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ls -la /dev/tty0
Also, have you tried booting up with a previous kernel? I know some of the latest updates installed a new kernel and maybe your server hardware doesn't play nice with it.

[corrigun]

I did remove it. It was completely empty.

[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-

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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?

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sudo rm /home/laytonj/.Xauthority*
sudo reboot

[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-

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

[ralphy]

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

[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.

[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?

[ralphy]

hmm... try the basic first:

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


[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]

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

[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.