Ubuntu 22.04 boots to a black screen with login

Question

When I try to boot my machine, this is the output:

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS <my_name>-pc tty1
<my_name>-pc login:

The whole screen is black. If I login in then it's like I'm in a huge terminal because I can run command in.

Does this answer your question? My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? — Nmath, Nov 05 '22 at 16:17
Do you have the correct driver for the GPU installed? Did it work correctly before and it stopped or has it never worked? — David, Nov 05 '22 at 16:17
All of a sudden if freezed and while rebooting it went like this. Before the freeze it was working properly. — Lorenzo Zabot, Nov 05 '22 at 16:21
Update: I tried to sudo apt remove ubuntu-desktop and the package was not found. Could this be the problem? — Lorenzo Zabot, Nov 05 '22 at 16:33
The "Duplicated" question is many years old and has more questionable answers than we can expect the OP to try, (52 answers). I vote to keep this question open. All answers that use WUBI as a solution should be eliminated. — C.S.Cameron, Nov 06 '22 at 03:38

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 06 '22 at 20:35

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Answering my own question.

To anyone that is having the same problem as me, and is not really technical (like me), here's what solved it for me.

What I was seeing was tty (“teletypewriter”), which is a text-only terminal commonly used as a way to get access to the computer to fix things. I was put into this "environment" because I somehow (after an update) managed to uninstall my desktop.

My advice is:

Log in into tty with your username and password.
Check if you have the ubuntu-desktop package installed. I did this by typing sudo apt remove ubuntu-desktop, which returned something like package not found.
If you find out that the package is missing, run sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop. After the installation, my desktop opened automatically and everything was fine.

Hope this helps somebody!

answered Nov 06 '22 at 20:35

Lorenzo Zabot

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It says package Ubuntu desktop is not available! But is referred to by another package package Ubuntu-desktop has to installation candidate – Pronay Sarker Apr 03 '23 at 12:31
Thanks Lorenzo, I had the same issue. After running an update and dist-upgrade, I suddenly got thrown into terminal mode. A reboot also lead to terminal mode. I checked the update log (/var/log/apt/history.log) and the dist-upgrade indeed removed ubuntu-desktop; I am stil baffled why. Installing ubuntu-desktop again solved the problem. – Bart Jun 10 '23 at 08:49
Similar issue and solution at https://askubuntu.com/questions/1405812/no-desktop-environment-after-failed-upgrade-from-21-10-to-22-04 – Bart Jun 10 '23 at 08:52

Ubuntu 22.04 boots to a black screen with login

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