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Windowing doesn't start and can't be started after upgrade to 22.04

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I am using a system76 computer. I have been running Ubuntu 20.04 for some time fine.

Last night I upgraded to 22.04 after I was prompted to do so.

But now when I try to log in, I can only do so into a bash shell. I can't get the windowing system to start from there. I have tried startx and other things that I have found on various sites where it seems others had a similar problem.

I tried chmod 755 /tmp /etc/tmp, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Xorg, I tried deleting .Xauthority. All of which I found recommended in various places.

When I type startx from the bash shell prompt, I get the following error messages:

(EE)

Fatal server error:

(EE) Could not create lock file in /tmp/.tXO-lock

(EE)

(EE)

Please consult The X.Org Foundation support

    at http://wiki.x.org

 for help.

(EE)

xinit:  giving up

xinit:  unable to connect to X server:  Connection refused

xinit:  server error

Can anybody help me?

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answered 2 Years ago luringdge · Accepted Answer

First, it's unclear to me if you're being forced to login to a terminal session because X doesn't start automatically, or because it fails after your sign-in attempt.

Then, anyways, if you can afford it (meaning the net is working fine, and you don't have any special configuration you would like to preserve --although you can always backup your entire home and etc directories, and you should before a major upgrade) instead of trying to fix individual packages, I would suggest trying to purge and reinstall all of ubuntu-desktop at once (in the past I would try to avoid this only because network bandwidth was expensive).