Lost my GUI in 14.10

Israel israeldahl at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 13:00:08 UTC 2014


Hi Henk,
What packages were upgraded on your system?
Something like this command:
awk '$3~/^upgrade$/ {print $4;}' /var/log/dpkg.log
can get that info.

On 09/05/2014 03:52 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:
> The GUI has gone again after upgrades this week ...
>
> Henk
>
> Henk Terhell schreef op 2-9-2014 om 00:28:
>> The upgrade received today on Lubuntu 14.10 has fully resolved this
>> problem.
>> Nvida-304.123 works OK now.
>> My thanks to the dev team.
>>
>> Henk
>>
>> Henk Terhell schreef op 1-9-2014 om 00:26:
>>> After purging driver NVIDIA-304 I got my desktop back with the
>>> default nouveau driver.  However opening Firefox rapidly caused a
>>> screen freeze.
>>> The older NVIDIA-173 did the same after installing and rebooting. I
>>> therefore switched back to NVIDIA-304.123 from the list and again no
>>> GUI...
>>> So now I know (a) the absence of GUI was caused by the driver and
>>> (b) none of the recommended video drivers for Lubuntu 14.10 beta can
>>> be used on this Geforce 6100 card.
>>> For Lubuntu 14.04 (and 14.10 alpha) the recommended NVIDIA-304.117
>>> does not cause any problems.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>


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Regards




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