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Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 4:58 am
by JaqxD
Every time I boot my machine with Linux Mint Cinnamon 14 It boots into the console/shell/terminal. Is there any way i can get my GUI back?

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 5:39 am
by xenopeek
What's the pretext to this? Did this suddenly happen, or did you do something beforehand. Like install some proprietary graphics card drivers, upgrade your system, or otherwise modify your system.

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 7:33 am
by JaqxD
The only change I made on the previous boot was to install Eclipse. It was working fine before that point even with proprietary graphics drivers.

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 7:52 am
by xenopeek
Okay, that doesn't sound like a likely cause. Do you get any errors or warnings displayed during boot? Check your dmesg and /var/log/syslog for any error or warnings, there might be some hint in there what is wrong. You could for example do:

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egrep -i "error|warn" /var/log/syslog
to show lines from your syslog with the word error or warn on them (case-insensitive). Similar for dmesg:

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dmesg | egrep -i "error|warn"
Not all errors or warnings will be relevant. Anything related to X not able to load is what you want to look for.

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 8:36 am
by JaqxD
Nothing with X unable to start appears. Only SystemIO confilcts

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 9:04 am
by xenopeek
As you are on the terminal, did you need to log in? If you logged in as yourself, try:

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sudo /etc/init.d/mdm start
If you are the root user (check with command 'whoami') then instead run without sudo, so:

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/etc/init.d/mdm start

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 5:22 pm
by ashboy
Hi JaqxD. I just wanted to mention that I seem to have run into the same, unexplainable issue. No closer to finding a solution, but I thought you should know you're not alone. My thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 4&p=716114

Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:54 am
by xenopeek
Perhaps you also have a problem with the .ICEauthority file, just as ashboy does. Please see my suggestion to ashboy here, which may also work for you: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 93#p716293