Lost my GUI in 14.10

Sat Sep 6 08:19:02 UTC 2014

I just read about an upgrade fix that was issued for nvidia 304.123 (see 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1365336 at #45; 
there is an explanation at #32)
Xubuntu 14.10 still needs startx to boot the desktop after an upgrade to 
this driver was received.
Very strange there is still a sound problem in this distro.

In Lubuntu 14.10 I did therefore also an upgrade sudo upgrade 
nvidia-304  and got the desktop back!

Henk

Israel schreef op 5-9-2014 om 22:33:
> Hi Henk,
> So, if I understand you
> Lubuntu cannot enter the Destkop, because it cannot start the xserver.
> Xubuntu fails to start the Xserver, but can start it from terminal.
>
> Is this correct?  The issue may still be the display manager since
> Xubuntu does not start X automatically.  However there is a possibility
> that Xorg in Utopic has changes that make supporting your card
> difficult.  I wonder if there are any xorg or xserver updates since you
> downloaded Lubuntu.  I think someone with more understanding of the
> entire display process of Linux needs to jump in here...
> But...  keep an eye on the updates, and see what packages come in an
> either fix or break the machine.  I may set up a VM to test this, but I
> have some other stuff going on right now that is taking up a lot of time :)
>
> On 09/05/2014 02:46 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>