<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><div><div>Folks: [this account wasn't working this am, used another addy which "bounced" . . . sorry if it gets posted twice . . . .]<br><br></div>Working with 14.04.1 on iBook G4 this
am . . . hibernate is not really working, restarted the computer to get
into GUI, did some stuff online; then Software Updater showed some
updates, just had upgraded yesterday . . . showed a couple of items
including "dbus" . . . did the upgrade in Terminal. Continued working
in FF, then, inadvertently must have hit the control key, or alt . . .
and a "brightness" bar opened on the desktop . . . on my newer apple
keyboard the F2 key is showing "brightness" . . . I pressed the F2 . . .
itself . . . and screen went black. Thinking I had dropped into a TTY I
then cntrl-alt-F2 and got "TTY4" . . . not knowing what I was then
going to do . . . I tried "sudo startx" . . . some stuff flashed on the
screen and then the blackness . . . . I shut down and restarted . . .
then got into a cycle of "logging in" at the lightdm log in window . . .
kept going back to the log in, rather than the desktop . . . .<br><br></div>So,
series of possible errors; I recall there was some conversation here
about "dbus" upgrade . . . but since I had no problem at that time
wasn't paying rapt attention . . . so possibly the "dbus" upgrade put me
into the endless log in?? I didn't reboot after I did the
update/upgrade . . . then brushing the control key and then several
seconds later the F2 . . . put me into a TTY window? Except there was
no CLI text . . . just black screen . . . . And then, in the interest
of blundering forward, it seems like maybe the "startx" command would
survive the shut down and restart? Tried this a couple of times, kind
of at a loss for what might be the problem or how to troubleshoot--I can
choose between "logging in" thru lightdm window . . . did not try
"Guest" log in . . . or black screen??? Can't decide which is better?
Help me decide, please . . . . : - )<br><br></div>F<br></div></div>