Ubuntu :: Not Able To Login , Start Gdm / Enable This?
Feb 5, 2010
New user, just installed last evening. Ran fine, then did update. rebooted computer, see logo, but login screen is dark black rectangle, can see anything.
Trying to power down computer yields message that gdm-simple-greeter.desktop is not responding.
Tried do CTRL-ALT F2 (found in forum)
and issue commands
sudo /etc/init.d/dgm stop
dpkg-reconfigure gdm - but get error message "/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure must be run as root"
So, I can run command line, but no gdm.
Any ideas? And I am a neophite with Linux.
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