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On 11/27/2014 01:47 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:<br>
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<div>Folks: [this account wasn't working this am, used
another addy which "bounced" . . . sorry if it gets
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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>
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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>
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Fritz, a better way to 'startx' when using lightdm is to<br>
sudo service lightdm restart<br>
This will restart lightdm and bring you to the login screen (or back
to your desktop if you autologin.<br>
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As for the dbus issue... I do not know the answer there.... maybe
someone else has an answer.<br>
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What I would do:<br>
boot into recovery mode, and get to your root console<br>
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && exit<br>
then try to log in to low graphics mode. If this works hurray! If
not.... we can go from there :)<br>
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Regards</pre>
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