Windows – Ubuntu boots into command line instead of X

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I posted this on the Ubuntu forums and they had no good answer. I hope you guys have a solution!

On my relatively new install, it's
booting into command line instead of
X–again.

This is the reason I reinstalled in
the first place. This has happened to
me three times now.

So, I boot up and it gets past GRUB,
past the glowing Ubuntu option, then
it prompts me for my username, then
password. I run:

startx

And that starts the GUI for about a
minute, then it runs the GUI login
system.

To add to the mess, the network-applet
is not shown in the panel.
Additionally, Chrome will not launch
(I ran Firefox from the terminal).

What's the problem here?

Best Answer

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

Anyways try this

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