Hi all!

I'm unable to get past the screen in the attachment. Seems like gdm3 has some issues.

Screen.jpg

Earlier, I'd followed this post https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-so...all-your-users as user 'root'

It says in the link, towards the end that

In older distributions, a pesky program tries to start PulseAudio every time you log on, which may cause conflicts. Prevent this by running the following command as root:
Code:
chmod -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
I hadn't done that step.

Or maybe it's due to the apt-get upgrade I'd run before the problem started occurring

What I've done:
1) Create a bootable USB
2) Connect to the internet using that - GUI of the live boot USB - (connecting using tty natively is beyond me as my University uses a proxy and setting up the connection through
Code:
wpa_supplicant
is ardous
3)
Code:
chroot
- ed as indicated in this link http://askubuntu.com/questions/42292...nternet-access
4) Run
Code:
apt-get update
,
Code:
apt-get upgrade
and
Code:
apt-get dist-upgrade
in that chroot'ed tty
5) I can confirm that gdm3, gnome and gnome-shell were upgraded - they were there in apt-get upgrade's output
6) I even tried
Code:
apt-get --reinstall install gdm3
and similar for
Code:
gnome
and
Code:
gnome shell
followed by a
Code:
dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
7) Typing in
Code:
X
just makes the screen go blank in the native tty, while in the Live USB's chroot'ed TTY, it gives the following output:
Code:
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
(EE) 
Fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE) 
(EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE) 
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
8) Typing in
Code:
gdm3
in both cases, nothing happens. Command executes and the prompt doesn't return. Have to press
Code:
Ctrl - C
to get back the prompt.

In short, nothing seems to work.
Reinstalling Kali doesn't seem to be an alternative.

Suggestions please.. Should I switch to KDE? Is it possible?
Was the failure due to PulseAudio? I suspect that might be the case as PulseAudio stopped working before this happened.

Thank You..