Initial boot ends in terminal mode

[Bob Rose]

When I turn on My computer the boot precess does not end up in my home page. It ends up in terminal mode and I am not sure how to continue. It asks for my user name and password, then after that is satisfied it ends up in terminal mode. Is there a command that will start up the home page ?

[msp (siddha2k2000)]

After any updating software comp reboots to terminal mode only. ( the way out that I found : - login and type sudo gdm and again login graphically.

[n-bishop (n-bishop)]

This has affected me for some time. Things are fine up until i activate my proprietary video driver. Then I'm left to type sudo gdm on every login. Kind of spoils the fast bootup time that linux mint is known for.

[Bob Rose (bobrose152)]

I actually solved the problem Myself, I was just loading the newest Linux on my system when this occurred. So I did not loose any files, Plus, I had them all saved to data DVDs. all except my movies, but, I had already made DVDs of them so it was no problem. I resolved the problem by re-loading the Linux disc and re-installing the Linux OS. I did a cold start, Sorry old term from my main frame days.

[n-bishop (n-bishop)]

I have tried re-installing several times and each time, I get the same behavior (forced to type the command sudo gdm in my terminal followed by my password). It always happens after I activate my proprietary NVidia Driver. Before I activate the driver, things work fine.

[n-bishop (n-bishop)]

One important thing I failed to mention. I'm running a dual-boot with linuxmint and Windows7. So I have to go through a grub screen and select my operating system there. After I do this, it fails to go to my desktop instead sending me to the command prompt. From there I enter sudo gdm and my password. Then I finally get to my desktop.

[n-bishop (n-bishop)]

I FOUND A WORK-AROUND HERE: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/573455

Here are the details:

1) Download the correct driver from nvidia web page (I couldn't get it fixed with Ubuntu driver at any way)
2)Purge nvidia packages: sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
3) Create the file "/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf" with the following contents:
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
blacklist nvidia-173
blacklist nvidia-96
blacklist nvidia-current
blacklist nvidiafb
4)create or adjust the /etx/X11/xorg.conf file to:
Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
5) reboot (You can also unload nvidia modulos and the others that I put in blacklist with command "modprobe -r module", example: modprobe -r nouveau
6) If you restarted it will tell you that it can't start X ( low graphics mode ) , then choose a text based console login
(if it does start in X, just press ctrl-F1, log yourself in and call "sudo service gdm stop" or "sudo stop gdm"

7) run the nvidia installer and when it asks to run nvidia-x-config, answer yes
To run the nvidia installer, you should go to the folder with driver (ej: cd Downloads). Change the installer permissions to be executable (chmod +x fileoftheinstaller.sh), execute the installer (sudo ./fileoftheinstaller.sh)

8) Restart, it should start xorg automatically