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I have installed an ubuntu in a computer with windows, but when i open the computer with ubuntu, there's no desktop environment, only a command line. I've even written my username and password on command line but it's still just a command line.

Extra info: when I choose try ubuntu with usb booting, there is no desktop neither. I have no internet connection on this computer for instance.

  • I've written the code with lightdm, the screen is full of "starting" and "stopping" different things such as "lightdm display manager" or "save kernel messages". Only "stopping anac(h)ronistic cron" fail others ok. still no desktop.

  • I added nomodeset and second time modeset=0 in the gnu grub screen. ctrl-x didn't work but i could have boot with f10 (it was written below the screen). Both didn't do any change.

When I tried to set them permanently as in the forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 gksudo gave me an error message.

By the way when I'm opening the computer windows is directly opened if I don't press on esc to enter boot options by f9. I read that it can be because of number of parts more than 4 in hard disk.

Rohit Gupta
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hariseldon
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I always accomplish setting up desktop by doing this right after installation:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install ubuntu-desktop

Viola!

Faron
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