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The login screen fails to display and freezes with a spinning cursor on a blank screen

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after the loading screen (with the bar filling up) just before the login screen should appear, my screen freezes with just a spinning (but movable) cursor and a black screen.

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Prashant Vaibhav (mercurysquad) said : 		#1

Hello,

How long have you tried waiting at the spinning cursor?
Are you able to boot using the live CD? If yes, can you boot into Recovery mode (press Esc when the GRUB message is displayed just before startup), and then type /etc/init.d/gdm start

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Phoenix591 (phoenix591) said : 		#2

i have tried waiting for about 45 minutes. I am able to boot using both the live cd and recovery mode. I will try your suggestion shortly.

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Phoenix591 (phoenix591) said : 		#3

it didn't work, im gonna reinstall (to a new partation) and recover files etc, because it seems too much trouble to fix ,and i havn't done too much in the 2 months or so.