Oh my god

Mon Oct 14 11:53:28 UTC 2013

I am now debian user, and experienced a big problem with nvidia's drivers
and nouveau due to a new-generation graphic. I suppose that just switching
to nouveau driver instead of uninstalling nvidia will also work for that. I
wrote a little-fast blog entry in my blog[1], from which you can learn how
to switch between one an another.

Hope it helps someone,

Javier Domingo Cansino

[1] Nvidia/nouveau in same installation:
http://txomon.com/2012/11/29/how-to-use-nvidia-and-nouveau-in-same-debianubuntu-and-dont-get-nut/

2013/10/14 Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com>

> 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@**gmail.com <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@**gmail.com<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/<http://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears/>
>>          > or
>>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/**ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/**1212987<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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