Mint 16: MDM fails to load during boot - system hangs

Something happened to my conf and now during boot, I get an error that says MDM Display Manager failed to load. The other strange thing that happened is that my /etc/fstab file had a swap file entry added to it. I don't use a swap drive and if I look using Gparted the UUID / Drive it not listed. I don't know how this happened but now I can't start up. I get to Grub, select the OS (Mint 16), the little mint logo appears and then I just hang there for ever.

During boot, if I do an Alt-Ctrl-F6 I can get to a terminal login prompt but don't know where to go from there. Anyone know of a way to do a "reset" on MDM or any other tricks to try?

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Hello,

I am wondering why this treads is marked as resolved : "[SOLVED] Mint 16: MDM fails to load during boot - system hangs" because I do not see any answer ? (sorry I am new to this forum and may be I am looking in the wrong place).

Cheers Jalver.

Probably them going 'not our problem'.

It's doing this for me too - if you go to a command line (eg via ctrl-alt-F2) and run

startx

it will probably work.

Until mdm is fixed, my solution is to use lightdm instead. See the forum at linuxmint.com for more.

As this thread was nearly six months dead until it was resurrected, let's call it:

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