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I made a fresh 'easy install' of 12.04 on vmware workstation.



This is yet another problem (quite a few have been asked here.) with the vmware tools installation. I managed to install vmware tools manually. But I still end up at the terminal with a message - Terminal Login Screen



I have managed to change the default runlevel to 5 and have made sure that X11 common and lightdm are started at runlevel 5 (Used sysv-rc-conf & checkconfig). When I login, I am at runlevel 5, but lightdm or X server are not in the ps aux list.



What am I missing? how do I get rid of this message and start the graphical login manager?



PS: I installed a GB of other apps by logging in and really wanted to salvage it over reinstalling.


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Try this:



sudo -s

mv /etc/issue.backup /etc/issue

mv /etc/rc.local.backup /etc/rc.local

mv /opt/vmware-tools-installer/lightdm.conf /etc/init

reboot


This will restore these files from the backup that VMWare made durin VMWare tools installation.


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