Gnome doesn't start upon booting

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cebalrai

Gnome doesn't start upon booting

Post by cebalrai »

I recently installed Mint 9 on a new computer I built. The install seemed to go fine.

But usually when I boot, it only boots to a black screen and a terminal. I then have to start the GUI manually. Strangely this happens about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time everything starts just fine.

Is there any way I can get Mint to just boot normally?

Thanks in advance (big linux noob here).
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cebalrai

Re: Gnome doesn't start upon booting

Post by cebalrai »

Shameless 24-hr bump. There must be a simple solution, no? :(
cebalrai

Re: Gnome doesn't start upon booting

Post by cebalrai »

48-hr bump.

Ive seen a couple other threads with folks saying they have this problem, but no solutions.
cebalrai

Re: Gnome doesn't start upon booting

Post by cebalrai »

Shameless 72 hour bump. :roll:
oobetimer

Re: Gnome doesn't start upon booting

Post by oobetimer »

cebalrai wrote:I recently installed Mint 9 on a new computer I built. The install seemed to go fine.

But usually when I boot, it only boots to a black screen and a terminal. I then have to start the GUI manually. Strangely this happens about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time everything starts just fine.

Is there any way I can get Mint to just boot normally?

Thanks in advance (big linux noob here).
Make or reconfigure a xorg.conf file..

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=44871
cebalrai

Re: Gnome doesn't start upon booting

Post by cebalrai »

oobetimer wrote:
cebalrai wrote:I recently installed Mint 9 on a new computer I built. The install seemed to go fine.

But usually when I boot, it only boots to a black screen and a terminal. I then have to start the GUI manually. Strangely this happens about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time everything starts just fine.

Is there any way I can get Mint to just boot normally?

Thanks in advance (big linux noob here).
Make or reconfigure a xorg.conf file..

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=44871
Strangely this problem seems to have resolved itself. Over time it became less and less common for the computer to boot into a black screen with terminal. I dont think it has been a problem in maybe the last ten boots....

:?:
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