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Booting to command line mode

  Date: Dec 13    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 408
  

Ubuntu 8.10 has been working fine. This morning when I booted my
desktop Ubuntu showed the graphical boot screen with the progress bar
indicating the boot progression.

Then all of a sudden there was the black screen with white text
wanting me to login. The login does work. I can issue LS and other
commands. How do I get to the GUI?

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Answer #1    Answered On: Dec 13    

You can try "startx" (no quotes) but that will only work if the system
really has started. If you are at a Busybox prompt it worn't help.

We've had at least 5 split second power outages here during the last 24
hours of high winds, and after some of them Ubuntu behaved similarly. The
answer was to type reboot and after a couple of restarts it started
normally.

 
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