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?
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