I was having a problem that my X server wouldn't start anymore and left me with a blank screen and a flashign cursor and nothing else. I found some commands and put them in ascript that worked great for me, YMMV on this one. First of all, you'll hab=ve to uninstall your video driver for this to work. Then make a new text document and rename it reconfigureX.sh. Open it up with vi text editor, and type these commands into the doc. Start it with #!/bin/sh
to look like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Reconfiguring Xserver"
rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf
rm -f xorg.conf*
service lightdm stop
service gdm stop
service kdm stop
service lxdm stop
service xdm stop
service wdm stop
Xorg -configure
[ -f xorg.conf* ] && sudo mv xorg.conf* /etc/X11/xorg.conf
dpkg-reconfigure $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep "^xserver" | tr '\n' ' ')
update-initramfs -u
then save. It's probably best to save it in your .gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder.
Boot your system in recovery and then into root. uninstall your video driver then navigate to your home/(user/.gnome2/nautlius-scripts folder and run sudo ./reconfigureX.sh then reboot after it's finished and you should have your desktop back. Hope that helps with your xserver not starting up.
