Boots without graphical interface

[Alan Dacey (grokit)]

Sounds like the graphics driver didn't build correctly or is otherwise borked. Could be something else but that is the issue 95% of the time.

Can you get to the recovery boot screen?  If you don't know how to get there press the shift key just after the machine starts booting and hold it down so that you force grub to show itself.

Once you see the grub menu, choose Advanced options, then choose the first recovery mode.  After the old-timey menu appears, enable networking, drop to a root shell and type in "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" without the quotes.  That will make sure that everything is up to date and may fix your problem.  Also type in "apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel" to make sure the driver is installed. (Note: you are in a root shell, do NOT use sudo)

Unfortunately I have no experience with Intel graphics so if somebody else doesn't answer, google is your friend. I only googled about for the intel driver name so it may not be the correct one, but i think it is - so you might want to make sure about that first.

-Alan


On Wednesday, December 02, 2015 4:24:53 PM Billie Walsh wrote:
> Further information. The boot process functions normally until the boot 
> screen gets to the point where it shows the big blue "K" button. At that 
> point it goes to a black screen with a mouse pointer.
> 
> On 12/02/2015 12:29 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
> > A week or so ago I found an EeePC 1000HA. Cranked up the memory to two 
> > gigs and changed the hard drive to a 750 gig. Installed Kubuntu 14.04, 
> > I usually only use the LTS. Everything appears to load just fine and 
> > works fine _until_ a reboot. No graphical desktop. I googled and tried 
> > starting it from the terminal, no luck. If I reboot a few times it 
> > usually will eventually show the desktop.
> >
> > Any ideas.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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