On 11/01/14 19:23, Anthony K wrote:
On 01/11/14 13:51, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Google has not turned up any useful information. Does anyone have and ideas what more I can try?
Try Ctrl+Alt+F1 then:
$ sudo /sbin/service gdm restart
If you are not using gdm, then substitute your desktop manager.
I had similar issue on my laptop and whenever my screen comes up garbled (happens once in a while on my Ubuntu Unity desktop), restarting lightdm always sorts the issue for me.
Cheers, ak.
Hey ak,
Ctrl+Alt+F1 gets me the GUI screen with the mouse pointer as I described in the email that you replied to. On that posting I said that, on that page, all key strokes are ignored. There is no terminal to type any "/sbin/service gdm restart" into.
Ctrl+Alt+F2 gets me a login prompt. I log in as root which eliminates the need for sudo.
/sbin/service gdm restart gets me:
gdm: unrecognized service
/user/sbin/gdm restart gets me:
** (gdm-binary:6035): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
** (gdm-binary:6035): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out
It seems that gdm is not a service. I get the same response from the system that I'm typing at right now.
Are you perhaps suggesting that I should restart the display manager?