A funny thing happend to me tonight.

[Nadav Har'El]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "A funny thing happend to me tonight.":
> run fine, so tonight I did a software update on the Ubuntu system.
> 
> It boots, I get a login screen and when I log in I get a blank
> screen. Totally black with a white cursor.
>...
> I'm trying plan B, which is to install KDE and see if it works.

Do you see a text screen with a *text* cursor or a *mouse* cursor?
If it's the former, I can't see how this could be KDE or Gnome
related...

Try looking in /var/log for any X server messages, or try to run X
yourself (startx) to see if you can see any hints of what's wrong.

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