Thanks. It looks like Xorg is running but sounds like gnome-shell is missing or hung.
Do you find any crash files in /var/crash? If so, please use the 'ubuntu-bug' command to upload them and also add a comment here mentioning the new bug ID. Otherwise... While your screen is black, switch VTs again (Ctrl+Alt+F4 or really anything from F3 upward) and login. Now does 'ps auxw | grep gnome- shell' show any gnome-shell process? If so then please force it to dump a crash file with something like this: kill -TRAP <pid-of-gnome-shell> And look in /var/crash again, per above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1739019 Title: Gnome Shell does not start in Xorg mode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1739019/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
