n Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Steve Clark wrote:

Have you looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log file - it sounds like there is a problem with X.

Not yet, but I will.

Also someone mentioned editing /etc/inittab and setting the run level to 3. id:5:initdefault: - change the 5 to a 3. If it boots to a non-gui login prompt then the problem is definitely X related.

I get a non-gui login prompt on other virtual terminals, so that would seem to be the case.