Lost my GUI in 14.10

[Henk Terhell]

Thanks Israel

I had filed a bug report #1363919 in the nvidia drivers section some 
days ago as I couldn't find a related report.
The screen dump of startx is different as before. It now only shows a 
non-fatal error about XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (Type "ONE_Level" has 1 
levels but <RALT> has 2 symbols).
A good idea to install Xubuntu 14.10 alongside. I'll let you know.

Henk

Israel schreef op 5-9-2014 om 16:24:
> 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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