Ubuntu installed - left at CLI

[David Mandelberg]

Ari Torhamo wrote:
> I just finnished installing Ubuntu on my brothers PC and I can't get to GNOME.
Did the install process start base-config (the part where it asks you if you
have an internet connection and for a username and password for the default user
after the first boot)?

If it didn't, just run /usr/sbin/base-config from the command line.

If it did, post the output of
 ls -1 /etc/rc*.d/ /etc/init.d/ # note: the -1 is the number and not the letter
 dpkg -l | grep xserver
 dpkg -l | egrep '(gnome|gdm)'
and try
 apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

> When I start the system, the process stops at the command line. The last thing I see on the boot-up list (don't know what I should call it) is "* Checking battery state  [OK]" and then I'm at the command prompt. Nothing unusual happend during the installation. This has happend a couple of times before (at previous installations in different machines), but at those times the system booted to GNOME after first restart (sudo shutdown -h now).
> 
> Please hurry and help me because I'm writing this on Windoze XP :-( Thanks! (and my brother looks critical :)


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David Mandelberg
mandelbergd at eth0.is-a-geek.org
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