Oh my god

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Ok, so I got it fixed, and it turns out that:
- what broke everything was installing nvidia-current.
- uninstalling nvidia* didn't fix the issue (this is huge: uninstalling 
the package does not completely reverse the installation)
- I got it completely fixed by manually removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
(after apt-get-purging nvidia*) and rebooting. A pretty easy fix, but 
complicated as hell to figure out.


On 13/10/13 23:39, matteo sisti sette wrote:
> If I understand correctly, many people in this list are developers
> working in ensuring Ubuntu quality, right? So, since this issue has been
> reported a lot of times and there are a few bug reports about it in
> Launchpad and a few questions in askubuntu (none of the answers to
> which, is working for me), and since this is a huge issue that
> completely breaks an ubuntu installation to an apparently unrecoverable
> point, making it a tremendous threat tu Ubuntu quality, I must deduce
> that a lot of people here must either have observed and thoroughly
> investigated this issue, or be doing so. So, I think there must be
> somebody here who has found out some workaround for this. I supplicate
> some of people to please, please share any working workaround with me.
>
>
> 2013/10/13 matteo sisti sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com
> <mailto:matteosistisette at gmail.com>>
>
>     Oh, given how 13.04 got screwed up in two days, which was a
>     supposed-to-be stable release, I don't dare to imagine how a "pretty
>     much ready" version will work
>
>
>     2013/10/13 Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com <mailto:noskcaj at ubuntu.com>>
>
>         That was a bit strange, but welcome to the team.
>         Maybe you could try installing 13.10 since it's pretty much ready.
>
>         On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, matteo sisti sette
>         <matteosistisette at gmail.com <mailto:matteosistisette at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>          > Hi,
>          >
>          > The Ubuntu QA team's website invites visitors to join the
>         list and introduce
>          > themselves, so here I am introducing myself to the list.
>          >
>          > I am an Ubuntu user and I have been more and more frustrated
>         by the
>          > exponentially growing unusability and unstability of Ubuntu
>         throughout the
>          > last years. But I will focus on unstability here.
>          >
>          > Now I am astonished to see the point it has reached.
>          > I have installed a fresh new Ubuntu 13.04 on a brand new
>         computer.
>          > First, the Firefox browser stopped working after updating it
>         (simply via
>          > apt-get) and it turned out to be because ~/.cache/mozilla
>         somehow got the
>          > wrong owner (root) rendering it unaccessible and preventing
>         Firefox from
>          > reading the user profofiles and hence to work at all.
>          >
>          > But now, after a reboot, I find myself with an empty desktop
>         with no Unity
>          > launcher nor system bar. None of the workarounds described at
>          >
>         http://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears/
>          > or
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1212987 work.
>          >
>          > So after delirious usability killers (I won't mention them
>         here as I want to
>          > focus on UNSTABILITY), after the impossibility to hibernate,
>         after the
>          > impossibility to suspend on low battery, after random x.org
>         <http://x.org> crashes started
>          > to appear which would just suddenly log you out destroying
>         all unsaved data
>          > at the blinking of an eye, now we have reached the point
>         where you may just
>          > reboot and find yourself with a completely unusable system,
>         roughly
>          > equivalent to one that won't even boot. Which means you are
>         forced to either
>          > waste a couple of days googling for a fix, or reinstall the
>         whole system
>          > just until this happens again.
>          >
>          > End of rant.
>          > Matteo
>          >
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