Just an idea: Sometimes "sudo restart lightdm" magically fixes such problems.<div><br></div><div>Kai<br><div><br>On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Adam Dingle <adam@medovina.org> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I normally run Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic) - it has been quite stable for months now. This morning I applied software updates as usual, attempted to reboot and saw a blank black screen with a mouse cursor and nothing more. I used Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console and logged in. As I did so, I saw these messages:<div>
<br></div><div>[544.201533] system-logind[925]: Failed to start unit user@1000.service: Unknown unit: user@1000.service</div><div>[544.201586] system-logind[925]: Failed to start user service: Unknown unit: user@1000.service</div>
<div> </div><div>'ps -ef' showed that the X server was running. I didn't attempt to debug much further - I needed a working machine, so I made a fresh overinstall from a daily ISO of 14.10. That worked for a few hours, but then after another reboot I was stuck at a blank screen again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Has anyone else seen this? I think I'll have to drop back to Trusty until this can be fixed. Thanks -</div><div><br></div><div>adam</div></div>
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