Ubuntu 12.04 booting in command line

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I just restarted my Ubuntu OS and now, for some reason, my Ubunut 12.04 boots in command line…without the GUI?

I use Wubi and haven't really done anything out of the ordinary. I've managed to get the GUI running by using startx via the command line that appears when Ubuntu boots, but how can I revert back to the GUI boot?

Even after using startx a lot of the GUI is missing…top bar, applications panel…etc

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You may try sudo lightdm, startx, sudo startx, or sudo gdm in that order of preference(Use the first that works). You may then try to set it up as the last entry in the system-wide crontab(See http://linux.about.com/od/ubuntu_doc/a/ubudg28t5.htm)

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Not sure whats the reason. you may want to check logs.

Anyways try this

When starting up, in Grub, choose recovery mode
It should give a menu list to choose various actions
One of the action is setting up X display, try this option.

Ubuntu – Installing GUI for Ubuntu Server 12.04

This is easy enough to do, though not always a good idea (see `Arguments Against a GUI').

If you still want to proceed, it should be as simple as running:

aptitude install xauth

(Or use apt-get instead of aptitude if you prefer). If you also want a full desktop-environment (more than just X); you can also try:

aptitude install ubuntu-desktop

Fore more information and some alternatives to a full GUI, see this article.

EDIT: Meant to say, if you don't want to boot to the desktop environment by default, make sure to run update-rc.d -f gdm remove. You can stop GDM if it's already running with /etc/init.d/gdm stop. All of this will require root, of course, so sudo or su to taste.

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