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I have an Ubuntu server running 20.10 and I was able to install Gnome Desktop Environment and that worked for me just fine but I recently uninstalled that to get Lubuntu instead and now I can't get the GUI to start up no matter what I have tried. I'm relatively new to Linux so I'm definitely frustrated so far but I don't want to have to reinstall a fresh ubuntu os just to get a GUI working again. I'm remotely connected to my ubuntu server through mobaxterm and I received no error messages when I installed any of these packages.

I have tried the following so far:

  • Installed lightdm package to try to get the login screen to show up
  • Installed lxdm and sddm as alternatives
  • Updated packages to the latest version
  • Tried the startx command and that did nothing
  • Tried installing gnome again to go back to what worked

Here is a link to my startx log: https://0bin.net/paste/30naRWZw#1gTEBOb+f6ezPwDeUv0MN0Muk4MTJW9Rm57mRIPPnR5

Output from suggested commands: https://0bin.net/paste/4EqYceyV#KX08E30DrXS6IADJXGGgwRCEfYBhhHxv4SV7m6z+AVl

DarthVegan
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According to your logs, you're still using gnome desktop manager. Try this sudo systemctl enable gdm3 And the query to your "startx", you must initialize ".xinitrc" in (~/.xinitrc) to start your desktop environment. If the above command doesn't help you try making a xinitrc file. Login to your server and then type, vim .xinitrc then add this line in your file "exec gnome-session" save and exit. Restart your server and try again. You can see more about xinitrc in the archwiki page.

cloud.009
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