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Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

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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?
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Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

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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.
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Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

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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.
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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.
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Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

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Nothing with X unable to start appears. Only SystemIO confilcts
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Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

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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
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Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

Post 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
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Re: Booting Into Shell/Terminal/Console

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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
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