Lost my GUI in 14.10

[Israel]

Hi Henk,
My guess is that this is something to do with lightdm still, since you
just got an upgrade for it.
That would be the place to start looking.  You could search Launchpad to
see if there is a bug related to this issue.  If you cannot find any,
I'd suggest opening a bug for it.  It may effect users of different
desktop environments as well, and then we can know that it is not a
Lubuntu specific issue.  If it is specific to Lubuntu then it may be
related to the Lubuntu session file.... (sorry I can't remember what it
is called at the moment).  This is the Lubuntu specific 'startx' command.
I am guessing you still cannot 'startx' and get X up.

You could also try downgrading lightdm, I suppose, but that can be
rather messy when you do things like that...

Another option would be to install something like Xubuntu in a secondary
partition and see if you are effected with the same issue when you update.

Hope this is fully fixed before release!

On 09/05/2014 08:34 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:
> Hi Israel
> If I recall correctly I got two times upgrades of 14.10 in last two
> days, 3 sept. and today.
> Lost my desktop again with the first one.
> The output of your command is below:
>
> Henk
>
> libdvdnav4:i386
> simple-scan:i386
> python3-gi:i386
> linux-headers-generic:i386
> linux-image-generic:i386
> linux-libc-dev:i386
> python-gi:i386
> python-gobject:all
> python3-update-manager:all
> update-manager-core:all
> update-manager:all
> libldap-2.4-2:i386
> chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra:i386
> lshw:i386
> usb-creator-gtk:i386
> usb-creator-common:i386
> lightdm:i386
> liblightdm-gobject-1-0:i386
> language-pack-en:all
> language-pack-gnome-en:all
> iproute2:i386
> libmpdec2:i386
> libhunspell-1.3-0:i386
> libstartup-notification0:i386
> python3-problem-report:all
> python3-apport:all
> apport:all
> apport-gtk:all
> libfm-extra4:i386
> libfm-gtk-data:all
> libfm-data:all
> libfm-gtk4:i386
> libfm4:i386
> libfm-modules:i386
> upstart:i386
> upstart-bin:i386
> systemd-shim:i386
> binutils:i386
> cpp:i386
> gcc:i386
> g++:i386
> pcmanfm:i386
> lxshortcut:i386
> libitm1:i386
> libgomp1:i386
> gcc-4.9-base:i386
> libstdc++6:i386
> libasan1:i386
> libubsan0:i386
> libcilkrts5:i386
> libatomic1:i386
> libquadmath0:i386
> libgcc-4.9-dev:i386
> cpp-4.9:i386
> gcc-4.9:i386
> g++-4.9:i386
> libstdc++-4.9-dev:i386
> libgcc1:i386
> libpulse0:i386
> libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386
> linux-libc-dev:i386
>
>
> Israel schreef op 5-9-2014 om 15:00:
>> 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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