After login in the desktop remains blank

Question

I have installed Ubuntu 10 last night and finished all upgrading stuff, in the time when updates are applied I downloaded a torrent file. As soon as download is finished I rebooted my system. As usual at start up it asked my login and I did the same.

After a successful login It should show me the desktop, or show an error message in case anything has gone wrong. But what I had is only a cursor and a blank wall paper.

Can anybody tell me what is the problem and how to resolve this?

Thanks

It might help if you could possibly add the contents of /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log right after the event to http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/ and provide the links here to help us get some idea what is failing. — MttJocy, Jan 21 '11 at 11:26
Ok let me say, none of the options worked, I had to reinstall everything. And its been a week since the os runs flawlessly. — Prasham, Feb 04 '11 at 06:47
Closing it as 'too localized' as the OP solved the problem by reinstalling it. — jokerdino, Feb 23 '12 at 14:59
For anyone else who has this problem: see Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears — Eliah Kagan, Sep 14 '13 at 05:24
In the very rare event you're using Parallel on a Mac, something similar to this happened to me. From Parallels Settings, Hardware->Graphics: I turned off 3D acceleration, and lowered Graphics memory to 32 MB. Everything then worked (after the virtual machine rebooted). — SilentSteel, Mar 28 '18 at 05:28

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 08 '12 at 19:18

10

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1
Login

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
sudo reboot

edited Jan 08 '12 at 19:18

Bruno Pereira

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answered Jan 21 '11 at 13:01

jet

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 22 '11 at 21:44

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Did you fill up your root-partition?

Ctrl+Shift+F2, login and issue: df -h, if that's zero for your rootdevice you'd get the symptons you describe.

It would be helpful to get some logging.

edited Sep 22 '11 at 21:44

N.N.

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answered Jan 31 '11 at 23:44

+1K, Muahhhh...... that did it.. root partition was 100% used... deleted some data and rebooted.. boommmm.. working.. – Lal Sep 16 '17 at 08:49

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:25

I had (have) the same problem on a Dell D630 and NVIDIA chip and ubuntu 10.10. It only happens if i use ANY of the following:

NVIDIA proprietary drivers version 280 something. if i revert to 170 something, it is fine
If i use an updated kernel from the kernel.ubuntu.com site pass 2.39. if i use any 2.38, it works fine.

weird huh?

Try the following,

Boot into recovery mode (hold on shift while restarting)
choose to run in failsafe graphics mode for this session only.
Go to hardware adapters and choose the nvidia 170 something (assuming you use nvidia)
Go to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and download the 2.6.38.8-natty kernel files
To install:
- Open command line and install the all headers file, then the headers for your architecture (x86, or x64), then the image file for your architecture, by using sudo dpkg -i filename.deb
- OR, double click on the .deb files on the order mentioned above and install them. they should open with gDebi or ubuntu Software center, both which will allow you to install them.
then restart.

I hope this helps. again, just my experience, but i am not an expert by any means.

score -3 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 22 '11 at 21:44

-3

Ctrl Alt F1
sudo apt-get install update
sudo startx

edited Sep 22 '11 at 21:44

N.N.

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answered Jan 31 '11 at 23:48

antman1380

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After login in the desktop remains blank

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