updating from terminal

[G. Christopher Tuck Jr]

Laurie,

It sounds like your boot loader has gotten fowled in some way. You can try using the 'startx' command after you've booted. When you boot up, you should see some option to choose what to boot that will disapear after a number of seconds. It might look like,

boot:

If you see this, hit the Tab key, or look at the instructions on the screen. If you do nothing, it will just boot the default configuration and it sounds like that is bringing you to the command prompt and not starting any windows manager. Please clarify if that is the case.

If it is, you may want to check your /var/log section for dmesg logs or Xorg.0.log files. If you are not confident with using the command line interface, I would suggest you find someone that is to help you. If the startx command works, than you can let us know what errors you find.

- Tuck



________________________________
 From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: updating from terminal
 
On 31 October 2012 21:14, Laurie Bell <bell359 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve I get the desktop if I restart,and boot from ubuntu advance.It doesn't run properly from this.
> It just won't boot from turning on computer.

I think it might help if you were to say that again, I, for one, don't
quite understand.  Please explain carefully what you do and what
happens in each case.

Colin


>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 31 October 2012 19:50, Laurie Bell <bell359 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks,that worked fine.
>> > another line comes up that needs a command,maybe to launch ubuntu?
>> > sorry about HTML trying to get out of it.
>>
>> It sounds like you've installed the Server version of Ubuntu - this
>> doesn't include any desktop and consequently you'll be looking at a
>> command line until you install a desktop... to put it in windows
>> terms, you've got DOS but now windows. Before you spend a lot of time
>> struggling with the command line, you might want to consider
>> downloading the desktop installation media from
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
>>
>> You can always use aptitude to pull down gnome, KDE or a number of
>> other desktops but if you're starting from scratch it might be just as
>> easy to pull a fresh ISO and install over the top of what you already
>> have, Either was you'll end up with a Linx distribution with a nice
>> desktop, so the choice is yours - if you have the bandwidth though,
>> I'll just download a 12.10 ISO, install and be done with it.
>>
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