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Just Installed a CLI system then ubuntu-desktop, does not boot automatically

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2310 / 2 Years ago, thu, november 25, 2021, 11:06:41

I installed a CLI system with Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Alternate CD. Then installed Ubuntu Desktop (--no-install-recommends). After a restart, it hangs at the below screen

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Whats wrong?

Btw: I notice a CLI system will NOT boot in by default (even in 11.04), I must go recovery mode and update grub then resume boot. This happens even when there are GRUB entries for the OSes already (though I am not sure if they are invalid or something). Another method is setting nomodeset

UPDATE

I used edited the boot entry to include text nomodeset. Then I got a full log with 1 fail

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Maybe I missed a package since I installed Ubuntu Desktop with no-install-recommends

UPDATE 2: With Ubuntu 11.10 Stable

I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 Stable (CLI System) then installed ubuntu-desktop --no-install-recommends. startx to boot into Ubuntu Desktop OK. but reboot and got stuck on the above screen

Tried: Boot into recovery, Update GRUB, Resume got:

Tried booting into Ubuntu 11.10 but with text nomodeset in GRUB got similar as above

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answered 2 Years ago lawain · Accepted Answer

Hm. From those screenshots it looks like the display manager (LightDM) thinks it's starting but is not switching VT properly (or possibly not starting properly at all). It's not clear whether you've tried Ctrl+Alt+F7 to switch to the VT that lightdm will be starting on.

The logs in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log might be helpful in working out what's happening. Note: these may contain some identifying information, like your local username.

It's possible that either installing plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo or adding vt.handoff=7 to your grub kernel boot commandline would fix this.

Either way, this looks like you might have hit a bug.