Kubuntu not going to KDE desktop?
 

So I downloaded and burned the ISO for the live version of Kubuntu onto a disc, I boot it up and it goes through all the loading and then it give me a commang line. I don't know much about linux command lines but I need to know how to get to the KDE desktop. Any suggestions? Thanks

try "xinit", then if it opens a sort of graphical console, type "startkde". Other things to try would be "startx" "X" (case sensitive) "gdm" "xdm" and "kdm".

thanks but when I typed xinit, it gave some critical error and when i did startkde it said done and then went back to the command line and nothing else worked

I would try this: If that doesn't work, try If that doesn't work, try: If that doesn't work, try

You may also want to be looking into the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see where it is failing to start. You may want to copy this file to a floppy along with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file then post them here so we can see them. You most likely will have to split the log file into a couple of posts it is fairly big. Ah to actually copy the files try something like this since I see you say you have very little command line experience.

I have the same issue. Totally new to Linux and that command line almost made me drop the whole project as I could not find much information to get to a graphical enviroment.

I think I have gotten so far as to installing kubuntu-desktop. I did as "pyrosim" suggested and typed xinit and that worked.

- "startkde", "xdm", "kde" all gave "command not found".
- "gdm" gave "Only root wants to run gdm".
- "startx" gave:

What do I need to do to get a graphical user interface? Should I install another Linux distribution where this is easier?

After reading a bit more here,it seems to me that I should have gone for the Kubuntu package?

I was a userfriendly enviroment and not a Linux/Unix command prompt.

I tried all those and still nothing

Then installing Ubuntu or Kubuntu isn't going to work out, I'm afraid.

Try Mepis, PCLinuxOS, or Linspire.

I figured I would try Ubuntu to see if I would get a different result and it says that it could not start the graphical user interface and to configure some x thing. When I try to do that it just freezes and i can't do anything

I got it working atleast :-)

Boots nicely into the GUI every time now.

How did you get it working? Might help me or another

Stepping in on this thread. Anyone know why Ubuntu (not Kubuntu, but same difference for this matter) might go to command prompt at boot, but I can log in using su or sudo gdm? I've tried reinstalling and reconfiguring the xserver and reediting the command to use gdm as my primary desktop. I can get into it fine, just not automatically on boot. Any ideas? Should I try reinstalling Ubuntu desktop? Thanks.

Instead of typing try typing

If this was a repsonse to my post, it doesn't seem to tell me anything. I've been typing sudo gdm to get into my Gnome desktop. The question is why is Ubuntu booting to a prompt, but then going into gdm with no problem when I invoke gdm at the prompt. Why isn't it just going into gdm?

I should note that for some reason, gdm wasn't initially installed (this is a build of Dapper, and I guess that was a bug). But it installed fine using apt (synaptic).