I've some new info. I installed 15.10 in server mode, installed lubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop and started X without problem. startx unity or startx both works. But nor lightdm nor gdm start. lightdm crash and gdm gives a black screen. systemctl status lightdm.service ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2016-04-06 21:02:21 CEST; 7s ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Process: 11960 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(basename $(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null))" = "lightdm" ] (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 8131 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Unit entered failed state. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Unit entered failed state. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'. n@i27:~$ sudo journalctl -xe -- -- Unit lightdm.service has begun starting up. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. -- Subject: Unit lightdm.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit lightdm.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Unit entered failed state. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: friendly-recovery.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit friendly-recovery.service i Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. -- Subject: Unit lightdm.service has finished shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit lightdm.service has finished shutting down. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... -- Subject: Unit lightdm.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit lightdm.service has begun starting up. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. -- Subject: Unit lightdm.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit lightdm.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Unit entered failed state. Apr 06 21:02:20 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: friendly-recovery.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit friendly-recovery.service i Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. -- Subject: Unit lightdm.service has finished shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit lightdm.service has finished shutting down. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. -- Subject: Unit lightdm.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit lightdm.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Unit entered failed state. Apr 06 21:02:21 i27 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'.