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After upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, I have logged into tty1 and now I have this:

Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-generic i686)

[Some more text in here]

user@localhost:~$

What do I type after $ to get to my usual desktop?

Zanna
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Guido322
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    What do you want to do now that your there? – George Udosen Mar 26 '17 at 22:51
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    The $ is your Bash shell's command prompt. You can now enter any terminal command, just like into the terminal emulator of a desktop environment. What exactly did you want to do? Were you having a desktop installation before the upgrade and now it only boots to text mode? Please explain your situation and intents. – Byte Commander Mar 26 '17 at 23:03
  • I upgraded from 14.04 on my Acer Aspire 5733Z to 16.04 and then restarted my laptop. When it came on and I got through the tty1 log in, I now have to put in command " me@me-aspire-5337z~$". What do I put? I am just trying to get in after a restart. – Guido322 Mar 26 '17 at 23:10
  • @Guido322 What happens if you type sudo service lightdm start, then enter your password? That will attempt to start lightdm, the graphical desktop manager. – luk3yx Mar 26 '17 at 23:11
  • Now I have- start: missing job name. – Guido322 Mar 26 '17 at 23:18
  • Are there perhaps error messages from the upgrade that you have not mentioned? – user535733 Mar 27 '17 at 02:38

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  1. After opening a text-only virtual console by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F3, as you have already done, at the login: prompt type your username and press Enter.

  2. At the Password: prompt type your user password and press Enter.

  3. After you have logged in in the console type:

    sudo systemctl start graphical.target

    and press Enter to bring up your default purple login screen and then login to your Ubuntu desktop environment as usual.

  4. If you get stuck in a login loop at the login screen due to a problem that occurred upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, you can fix it by following the instructions in the answers to this question: Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop.

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