Boots into tty1 terminal

[Codeless]

Hey everyone, I bought an imac G3 yesterday and it has xubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake installed on it. When i turn it on, after it POSTs, a little xubuntu logo appears it it begins to load 'essential drivers' and mount the file system, etc. After it is done doing that, it simply prompts me into a CLI that on the top says "Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS ubuntu tty1". It asks for my username and password, and then it just keeps me in this tty1 terminal. I did some research online and supposedly by pressing alt+F7 you can exit the tty terminals and go back into GUI mode. Well pressing alt+F7 does nothing, and pressing alt+F1 through 6 just sends me into the different tty terminals.

I am very new to Linux so if someone could give me an idiot proof explanation on either how to fix it or whether im screwed and just need to reinstall xubuntu on here. Thanks in advance for your help!

[Rubberman]

It sounds like there is a problem with the X server. Login to one of the text consoles and execute the command startx and post the output here so we can further advise you.

[Codeless]

It sounds like there is a problem with the X server. Login to one of the text consoles and execute the command startx and post the output here so we can further advise you.

Typed 'startx' in the tty1 terminal and the output said there is no such command. Tried 'sudo startx' (not sure if this would do anything but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try) and output was the same.

[jayd512]

You might be able to get it with either startxfce4 or xfce4-session.

Try both of these, and let us know if there is any different result.

[Rubberman]

You might be able to get it with either startxfce4 or xfce4-session.

Try both of these, and let us know if there is any different result.

It is likely that the X11 GUI components are not installed on the system. If you have network access you should be able to install them with apt-get, or if you have the installation disc, you can probably install it from there. Were there any discs that (probably home-brewed) that came with the system?

[Codeless]

You might be able to get it with either startxfce4 or xfce4-session.

Try both of these, and let us know if there is any different result.

Once again, output said that there is no such command.

[Codeless]

It is likely that the X11 GUI components are not installed on the system. If you have network access you should be able to install them with apt-get, or if you have the installation disc, you can probably install it from there. Were there any discs that (probably home-brewed) that came with the system?

I do have network access, but no discs were provided to me.

[jayd512]

Well, I'm not a *buntu user, but you should be able to execute

sudo apt-get install xfce

Dependencies should be resolved for you.

[Codeless]

Well, I'm not a *buntu user, but you should be able to execute

sudo apt-get install xfce

Dependencies should be resolved for you.

Tried this and said apt was not a command. Im guessing this is a sign that this xubuntu is beyond salvation lol.

[jayd512]

"apt" is not a command? Or did you use apt-get?