Black Login Screen after installing updates 12.04

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Published on 2012-05-30T09:12:08Z Indexed on 2012/05/31 10:50 UTC
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I love my lixux 12.04..till yesterday it installed new updates and i clicked on restart..

As system went to grub all normal & loaded normal..then instead of pretty desktop (auto login turned on) i have black screen asking for login and password..

Why? How i get my desktop back to before?

Please help new noob!!! This is due to updates i am sure, nothing in hardware has changed and no other display settings changed.. using AMD diver from there site linux one for my raedeon 6850 and have catalyst driver working fine..

i have tried typing in weird commands but they didnt do much like sudo start lightdm and sudo startx .. didnt do anything just froze.. i dont exactly no what these commands do but something to do with black screen..so i thought id try it..

Thanks

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