I have a TTY after upgrade to 16.04

Question

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?

karel · Answer 1 · 2017-11-24T05:30:03.087

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