Black Screen/Reinstall GUI?

[ralphy]

So for what it is worth I got back to my desktop. I noticed in the error log that none of the fonts were found. I reinstalled them but still no joy.

Then actually the above reply that mentioned root for some reason prompted me to try-

Code:

sudo startx

And the desktop started. If anyone has any ideas how to automate this I would appreciate the input.

From previous post... did you remove the .Xauthority file as recommended under laytonj account?

Code:

sudo rm /home/laytonj/.Xauthority*
sudo reboot