<font face="Arial, Verdana">WHat we have done is adding</font>
<font face="Arial, Verdana">
</font>
<font face="Arial, Verdana">if ! pgrep "xinit" > /dev/null</font>
<font face="Arial, Verdana">then</font>
<font face="Arial, Verdana"> xinit -- -nocursor &</font>
<font face="Arial, Verdana">fi</font>
at the end of .bashrc
Since we use autologin that will start x server upon boot. Not sure what your update did - either it removed the lines or disabled autologin.