Won't boot into a graphic desktop

[ejazzkatt]

Hi,

I have both Ubuntu and Kubuntu (and Windows 7) installed on my desktop computer. I did something on Sunday and although my compute will boot into Linux on the command line, it won't boot into a GUI. I know that there is is a way to access the graphic settings from the command line but I don't remember what it is. I don't remember the name of the program. Can someone please help me with this?

If it helps, I have a laptop and I assume I can still SSH into my desktop from it.

I think that, in trying to back up my desktop to an external drive, I , instead backed it up to the same drive so my drive is saying that it has no space left.

[dibl]

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[The Liquidator]

What did you do on Sunday - did you attempt to upgrade or something? That may be important for the diagnosis.

However, the most common causes of a problem like this are either:

1. a problem with the display manager giving no access to the desktop or
2. a problem with x resulting in no graphics capability.

At the command prompt type

startx

What happens?

PS noted dibls response was posted whilst I was typing...