Can't login after running startx

Asked Jun 22 '14 at 18:50

Active Jun 22 '14 at 18:55

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Think I have totally messed my system up, and it's a case of lesson learned for not reading things correctly maybe.

For some reason my GUI stopped loading after logging into ubuntu 12.04, think I have misinterpreted this post

Command startx run my default gnome classic and gnome statup scripts also runs.

As I ran this using sudo startx but was presented with a blank screen, so I restarted and tried to login as my user but it just loops back to the login page every time now

I don't know what to do to get access back into my laptop

If anyone could help I would be so grateful

Edit

Followed this post and now I can login, lesson learned, but still no GUI

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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asked Jun 22 '14 at 18:50

Richlewis

Try sudo lightdm to get the gui. – Tim Jun 22 '14 at 19:01
Got an error message saying failed to use bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, do you have appropriate permissions? – Richlewis Jun 22 '14 at 19:08
It was sudo, and you have an admin account? – Tim Jun 22 '14 at 19:09
I'm the only account if that makes sense, I tried sudo service lightdm start but then it says job is already running – Richlewis Jun 22 '14 at 19:10
Using sudo to run startx will cause your .Xauthority file to get owned by root - there are many previous questions about this e.g. Ubuntu gets stuck in a Login Loop – steeldriver Jun 22 '14 at 19:13
Looking in /etc/x11/default-display-manager it is set as /usr/sbin/lightdm – Richlewis Jun 22 '14 at 19:13
Try sudo service lightdm restart then Ctrl+Alt+F7 – Tim Jun 22 '14 at 19:14
Just goes to a blank screen – Richlewis Jun 22 '14 at 19:22
Also looking at my Xauthority file, it's 0 as it's file size, so it's empty? And also no $DISPLAY ENV set after printenv – Richlewis Jun 22 '14 at 19:23

Can't login after running startx

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