[ubuntu-uk] Hmmmm....

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sat Mar 21 09:44:58 GMT 2009


Sean,

Sean Miller wrote:
> I seem to have "broken" my Jaunty install.
> 
> It boots up okay but I am unable to type anything in the login
> boxes... cursor won't go there, though the "Username" box does
> display...
> 
> Anybody have any idea where I should start looking?

I guess I would go to the console with Alt-Ctrl-F1, log in there and
start looking at log files etc especially those to do with the X server
starting up etc. You might try restarting X by hand and see if any
errors show up.

Regards,
Tony.
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