Problems with 14.04 upgrade...

[Nils Kassube]

BRM wrote:
> I upgraded my AMD64 3200 based desktop last night from 13.10 to 14.04
> and have run into a couple issues - one of which is a show stopper.

> 2. When bototing up, it never gets past plymouthd. The system just
> sits there. If I press ESCape, then I can see the list of
> "OK"/*failed"; there's a couple things that fail (don't have the
> exact list off hand) but I can see that it keeps trying to come up,
> but after each service is started, it is almost immediately stopped;
> sometimes a few things get up before things are shutoff; but it never
> really finishes booting.
> 
> As I noted earlier, I can go to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and I have
> access without an issue.

I have seen this with an upgrade 12.04 -> 14.04 [1]. If you had kdm but 
not lightdm installed before the upgrade, this may be the same issue. 
The problem was that kdm is replaced by lightdm during the upgrade. 
However I had a stale config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Removing 
that config file solved the issue and lightdm started.


Nils

[1] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297936>