Can you ssh in and install xorg-xinit? That should fix the issue.Well hell, back to square one. Loaded Ubuntu into a VM, installed gnome and that's the last I saw of Ubuntu. Started up with a black screen and nothing more. I hate when crap like that happens. O well, it's easy to create and destroy VM's.
Yea, good question. I don't like unity but for my purposes, it wouldn't matter. Just wasn't thinking when I stepped in it. Gonna give it another go after super.Why do you need gnome (or any other Gui) for an OwnCloud server? Just install Ubuntu server, select openssh-server and LAME as optional packages during the install, and then install OwnCloud from the command line.