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I am really hoping someone can help, been trying to fix this all morning I turned my laptop on this morning, and I get the error "Your system is running in low-graphics mode", and nothing changes if i follow the steps.

If I press CTRL + ALT + F1; type "startx" the desktop loads fine. I can then open a terminal, run "unity", and the desktop works like it did before.

Any ideas? I have googled a lot and can't seem to find any fix. I have reinstalled my drivers so many times, and nothing fixes it. I think they must be fine though, as I can get on by following the steps above. Thanks

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Are you getting screen like this? enter image description here

as mentioned in my thread

Your issue is unrelated to mine. Just undo the last action you did to get back into last working good configuration.

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Ashu
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  • This is the exact screen I am getting. I did not make any changes, just did the updates via the update center. I may have messed with a few things to try and get it working when I first got the problem though.

    It seems so strange that I can get in via startx. But the login screen won't appear!

     – user2486946 Feb 16 '16 at 12:47
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Ok so I fixed it! I checked the logs in

/var/log/lightdm

The lightdm.log file showed an error with greeter. I checked the x-0-greeter.log file, and it said there was an error with /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority.

I checked there, and the file didn't exist! I had the file in the home directory, so I copied that, to there, chowned and chmod it and it worked! Wooh! :)

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