This is weird,I was reading some blog and I found that I can manually start GUI by issuing this command sudo startx,so I did that.Now I'm unable to login to my user account.
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Raja G
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2Try restarting your computer. – nikhil Oct 28 '12 at 14:42
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Did you that in a terminal window with all GUI already running? – Oxwivi Oct 28 '12 at 14:43
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are you able to login from CLI ? I mean not from login screen . type ctrl+alt+F1 at the login screen of yours . there are you able to login ? – Raja G Oct 28 '12 at 14:46
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If thats not worked , you should try this .http://askubuntu.com/questions/84324/password-reset-disk – Raja G Oct 28 '12 at 14:47
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OK do the following command from your terminal with CTRL+ALT+T
or from CLI with CTRL+ALT+F1
sudo restart lightdm
If issue not solved then reinstall your lightdm with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm
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@Oxwivi right but , he has executed sudo startx , i thought he could be there . – Raja G Oct 28 '12 at 14:45
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what ever , he can do my post from terminal or CLI .if its not resolved the issue i gave him a link to reset the password . – Raja G Oct 28 '12 at 15:23
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@Jai Solved my problem, I'm able to login and continue my work, thanks bro :D – Nur Mar 28 '13 at 13:40
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