12.04 update problem - software re "hardware" update

[sktsee]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 09:23:16 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:

> rikona wrote:
>> Another restart, and it said it had to run in low graphics mode,
>> whatever that is, and I said okay. At this point, the CLI came up. I
>> tried starx, which failed miserably with many messages rapidly going
>> by, some complaining about video, and comments such as "no such file".
>> A reboot gave me the same thing again.
>> 
>> So here I am at the CLI with no idea how to restore the functionality I
>> had previously. Since this was supposedly just a simple software
>> update, I did not do a system backup before hand - big mistake! What do
>> I need to do to figure out what the problem is and fix it?
> 
> I'm using 14.04 myself, so I have to write from memory and therefore it
> may not be too helpful. 12.04 has HWE packages for the kernel and also
> for the xserver. It looks like all of them have been installed. At least
> the previous kernel should still be available at the grub menu, but it
> doesn't look like a kernel problem but rather like a video problem.
> 
> When I still was running 12.04, I had the HWE kernel in use, which
> didn't make any trouble. Instead it helped to use some USB devices which
> weren't supported by the standard kernel. I also tried the xserver but
> that didn't work on my machine. I don't remember the exact symptoms
> (maybe similar to yours), but I returned to the standard version and
> things were fine again.
> 
> So I think you should check which xserver packages are installed and
> possibly replace them with the standard version. You could use the
> command
> 
> dpkg --get-selections|grep xorg
> 

Here's the list of upgraded packages on my 12.04.5 system:

dpkg --get-selections |grep lts |cut -f1

gconf-defaults-service  ** ignore
libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-trusty
libegl1-mesa-lts-trusty
libgbm1-lts-trusty
libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-trusty
libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-trusty
libglamor-dev-lts-trusty
libglamor-ltst0
libglapi-mesa-lts-trusty
libgles2-mesa-lts-trusty
libopenvg1-mesa-lts-trusty
libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-trusty
libwayland-ltst-client0
libwayland-ltst-server0
libwayland0-lts-trusty
libxatracker2-lts-trusty
libxrandr-ltst2
linux-generic-lts-trusty
linux-headers-generic-lts-trusty
linux-image-generic-lts-trusty
x11-xserver-utils-lts-trusty
xserver-common-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-input-evdev-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-input-mouse-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-input-wacom-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-mach64-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-mga-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-modesetting-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-r128-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-s3-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-savage-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-sis-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-tdfx-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-trident-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-vesa-lts-trusty

As I recall when I upgraded the HWE, I ran the same issue where I think 
there were a couple of packages that either didn't get upgraded, or were 
newly installed but shouldn't have been. I think the issue was with the 
packages libxrandr* and libglamor*, but I can't be sure. Anyway, my 
system works with this set of packages in a Virtualbox VM.

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sktsee