Post installation problem

[Kylej866]

I installed the latest version of Ubuntu server today. Installed it and it booted to the shell screen. I entered the command startX and sudo startx. Both got the same error message:
[1]exec: 5: /usr/bin/X11/X: not found
[2]xinit: server error

I currently have it configured for virtual private hosting.

Scanned the disk and it had no errors.


System Specs:
Intel Pentium 4 Processor 1.90GHz
256MB RAM
Nvidia G-Force 2 MX (G-force not geforce)
20GB IDE hard drive

Any ideas on what causing this message?

[Kylej866]

Update:
Entered the code:

[1]sudo apt-get update
[2]random data
[3]sudo apt-get upgrade
[4] updated
[5]sudo reboot

Reboot

[1]startx
[2]xauth: /home/serv01/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored
[3]xauth: error in locking authority file /home/serv01/.Xauthority (repeated 3 times)
[4]exec: 5: /usr/bin/X11/X: not found
[5]xinit: server error.
[6]same as line 3

[Kylej866]

please! Any help is apprciated!

[rokytnji]

For Gnome Desktop

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Make sure your universe/multiverse repository is enabled. I'm not sure if doing sudo apt-get update , and get- upgrade does the trick but if you get a desktop after after typing in startX then its enabled.

To keep from typing startx all the time

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Gdm is what handles your x system starting automatically instead of entering start x at the command line each time you boot. The reconfigure runs the xserver setup so you can configure your system monitor, video card etc

[Kylej866]

Thanks! Works perfectly now