Hi I have been using kubuntu for a while now and just yesterday it started to boot to command line where I have to enter username and password and then startx to get to desktop. I have looked at some of the log files but can't see anything. I have also uninstalled nvidia graphic but did not do anything. Recovery mode did not help. Any ideas? I am using kernel 3.13.0-36 and everthing is up to date.
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Did you restore the original xorg.conf after the nvidia uninstall?
/etc/X11/Kubuntu 18.04 on AMD -
The problem arose before I uninstalled nvidia. I only uninstalled nvidia to see if that would help, it did not. I reinstalled nvidia again. By te way the system settings driver manager does not work properly, it seems to continuously search for driver lists. I install the nvidia 343 driver by edgers ppa method.
Another thing about your answer is that I do not and I don't think I ever had a xorg.conf in /etc/X11 which always seemed odd.
The boot problem remains, system boots to command prompt and I have to log in and password and startx. Could it have been something about sudo apt-get autoremove removing something?Comment
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I have seemed to stumble on to the problem when I discover in dmesg 'kdm main process 1256 killed by Term signal'. Searching for this I found http://techforumnetwork.com/techqns/...-doesnt-start/. So I purged lightdm and installed kdm and it's working now. Phew another few hours fiddling.Comment
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It looks like now that you were able to purge lightdm you might be able to put it back.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2049203
and for reference it has a "cant see desktop" section: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDMKubuntu 18.04 on AMDComment
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