[nmglug] No GUI desktop=added info

[Satsangat Khalsa]

this is a pretty interesting troubleshoot

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:14 PM, <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> Sorry for dribbling this in but I ran #who# and for the first time found
> that ubuntuguest has a DISPLAY value of (:0) EHO NO VALUE FOR ME,
> "Ubuntu". I had just run #export DISPLAY="0.0# logged in as me in the
> command line. However if I ctr+alt+f7 I am back in the ubuntuguest GUI. On
> Fri, March 16, 2018 6:48 pm,
> okeefe at cybermesa.com wrote:
> > On Fri, March 16, 2018 11:24 am, s at mnoble.net wrote:
> > Thanks Sam! I had ck'e log files previously with no errors but now I
> have one. Interestingly this last reboot booted straight into the guest
> and lightdm (where that wm came from is beyond me!). Can't login to any
> wm as me though. Here's the log file error:
> > #(EE) open /dev/fb0: permission denied#
> > after finding correct syntax for the log file ;)
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 08:32:29AM -0600, okeefe at cybermesa.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Probably worth looking for clues here:
> >>> (==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log" time,
> (current
> > time)
> >> Can we see something like:
> >> $grep -2 '(EE)' ~/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log
> >>
> >> But my guess is this problem will turn out to be about too many display
> > managers or
> >> multiple X sessions or X fighting with wayland or whatever the ubuntu
> > wayland-competitor was called etc.
> >> I'd be interested in seeing if any X servers are running.
> >> Maybe something like:
> >> $ps ax | grep Xorg
> >> or even
> >> $ps ax | grep X
> >>
> >> And if you find a process running X it's probably a display manager that
> > you aren't using, and maybe it can be shut off i.e:
> >> $sudo /etc/init.d/somedm stop
> > The only process I could see was Xorg (from "top")
> >
> > Thanks so much. I know that all the parts are there but getting them
> ordered seems to be the issue
> >>
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