An experiment in backup

[Brandon Vincent]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I take back my previous answer.  When I do this as a normal user, I get a
> black screen for a while, but eventually I get a cursor I'd describe as a
> hollow X.  I can move it around the screen, but not do anything else.  No
> buttons bring up menus.  There are no widgets on screen.
>
> I take it that X is running, but there are no clients.

Can you try running "sudo restart gdm"?

Brandon Vincent