X-window fails to start

[Markus Schönhaber]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> > what does $HOME/.xsession-errors say's
>
> I'm searching for way booting to runlevel 3 temporarily on Ubuntu
> before I can read the logfile.

Don't you get a console by pressingCtrl+F1 or Ctrl+F2 or ... Ctrl+F6?

Regards
  mks