Login Screen not showing up in Ubuntu 8.10

[Themeboy]

I'm new to Linux and I installed Ubuntu 8.10 recently. I was changing boot screens, splash screens & login screens. After changing my login screen I thought to check it. I clicked the log out button and chose switch user. The screen went black with a cursor. I waited for a few minutes, but when nothing happened, I restarted my pc. Now, instead of the ubuntu bootscreen, It was showing a text-based loading procedure and after the booting process, instead of the login screen, a blank screen with cursor showed up. :wall:I tried various key-combinations and when I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del a message flashed that "no usplash screen found for resolution 1280x1024" and then the pc restarted. Please tell me how to solve this problem

 

[prakash_mvpa]

add vga=791 to the grub menu.I will tell you how.
When you see the "boot menu" or "grub" and the One Line showing "Ubuntu 8.10 kernel 2.6.27.xxx..." line ,with the up(↑) and down(↓) arrow key to select that line.
then press key "e" .then select the line starting with "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.x ..".
press "e" again.now go to the end of that line.append "vga=791" to it(Note: a space is needed between the last word of that line and vga=791).
now press "ENTER".
Now Press "B" to Boot.

Try and reply.

 

[superprash2003]

also try typing startx

 

[prakash_mvpa]

^better this way:
login in one of the virtual terminal with your login name and password.then run:

/etc/init.d/gdm restart

 

[Themeboy]

add vga=791 to the grub menu.I will tell you how.
When you see the "boot menu" or "grub" and the One Line showing "Ubuntu 8.10 kernel 2.6.27.xxx..." line ,with the up(↑) and down(↓) arrow key to select that line.
then press key "e" .then select the line starting with "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.x ..".
press "e" again.now go to the end of that line.append "vga=791" to it(Note: a space is needed between the last word of that line and vga=791).
now press "ENTER".
Now Press "B" to Boot.

Try and reply.

Thank you but I was not able to try it. :redface:

I reinstalled ubuntu after fetching my data from the previous installation.
Anyways thanx for your help......I'll try it the next time it happens to me.

also try typing startx

I had already tried it earlier but it did not work.

Thank you once again :thumbsup: