[Ilugc] Unable to boot the GUI interface (startx) of Ubuntu 8.04

[Mehul Ved]

On 8/23/08, Bharath Kumar <bharath79in at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>  I have a problem in my ubuntu laptop. While loading the GUI of the operating
>  system i.e ubuntu 8.04, it encounters the following error :

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > xorg-errors
sudo aptitude install pastebinit
pastebinit xorg-errors

>  xauth: ero while loading shared libraries: lib Xau.so.6: cannot open shared
>  object file: No such file or directory

sudo apt-get install -f

How did that error start? Did you try installing removing something manually?