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Ubuntu is in command mode how to turn on the GUI mode again?

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I have HP Probook 4540s with Radeon graphic card, I downloaded drivers from This site and installed those after reboot I couldnt see my launcher and toolbar but yes i could use few shortkeys, I looked for problem and run that

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

unity --reset-icons &disown

and this command

sudo apt-get purge fglrx lightdm && sudo apt-get install lightdm ubuntu-desktop

on the terminal, Web Link of the page

after running the last command i restarted and now no GUI comes up its just black command line interface and ask for my user name and password. I have no idea how to get this back to normal
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answered 2 Years ago singerrupt · Accepted Answer

This is last thing you can do to install a display manager to fix your problem

Go to following link and download gdm_{a display manager much similar to lightdm} by choosing your specific Ubuntu version and architecture.

http://pkgs.org/download/gdm

One file with .deb extension will be downloaded. Save it to your pen-drive.

Then login in Recovery Mode_{2nd option from your grub-menu} when your system starts. You may have to hold Shift if your system doesn't show any Grub Menu. After a lot of text displayed in black screen one list will come which list some options. First go to option Grub, it will mount your file system in read/write mode. _{(Just in case go for network option, which will enable your network)}. Then chose root option in order to login as root. Then go to the pendrive where you saved the deb file. The drive should be listed in in /media. I am assuming that you saved the file in gdm
directory inside pendrive _{(pendrive is the name of your pendrive)}
```
# cd /media && ls
```
(which will list your pendrive if you don't get pendrive
folder then go to Mount Pendrive Section at last, then come back here and continue to next step.)
```
# cd /media/pendrive/gdm 
```
(go to gdm directory where .deb file is saved.)
```
# dpkg -i *.deb   
```
(installing gdm)
While installing gdm one window will come which will ask your to chose gdm
from the list. Chose gdm. If this window doesn't appear then try following command:
```
# dpkg-reconfigure gdm
```
(chose gdm) Then finally execute following command:
```
# reboot (reboot your system)
```

Mount Pendrive Section

Mounting pendrive while working in recovery mode.

Run this command:

    # fdisk -l

Find your device in the list, it is probably something like /dev/sdb1. Then execute other commands one by another:

    # mkdir /media/pendrive

Run this command if your pendrive is formatted in FAT/FAT32.

# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/pendrive -o uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

Or this command if your pendrive is formatted in NTFS
```
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/pendrive
```

Hope it will work for you.. For any further assistance please reply..