Lost my GUI in 14.10

[Henk Terhell]

Strange enough Xubuntu 14.10 on the same PC doesn't start in GUI but 
hangs after every boot at the terminal. After login and StartX the 
desktop appears.
Both nouveau and NVDIA 304.123 video drivers do work well in Xubuntu 
14.10 without any screen freezes so far . So there is difference with 
Lubuntu 14.10.

In Lubuntu 14.10, sound handling is much improved and worked for me 
out-of-the-box.
In Xubuntu 14.10 I haven't yet figured out how to get sound as 
Pulseaudio cannot find there my built-in monitor speakers.

Henk

Henk Terhell schreef op 5-9-2014 om 17:12:
> 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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