On Mon 03 Oct 2016 at 18:50:59 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, thank's for your sppedy reaction. > > With "gui stopped" I mean the following: > After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where > one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections, > the following screen appears: > > A pic of a sad computer with the text (the first line is in bold): > =================================================================== > Oh no! Something has gone wrong. > A problem occurred and the system can't recover. > Please log out and try again. > ----------- > | Log Out | > ----------- > =================================================================== > I get the same screen when I choose another shell (via Ctrl-Alt-F2), > log in as root and enter: startx.
Stop gdm3: systemctl stop gdm.service What happens with these two commands? xinit -- vt$XDG_VTNR (Click in the xterm and type ctrl-D to exit). and xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- vt$XDG_VTNR