[SOLVED] no GUI after update?

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall kdebase-workspace-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenal1 libswscale0 libxvidcore4 libsvga1 liblircclient0 mplayer libavformat52 sdparm ethtool libx264-85 libenca0 liblzo2-2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 mplayer-nogui
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1,829kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 122101 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu14 (using .../kdebase-workspace-bin_4%3a4.4.2-0ubuntu14_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdebase-workspace-bin ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up kdebase-workspace-bin (4:4.4.2-0ubuntu14) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place


ok, reboot, here I come!

*no luck, still getting the same error message.

[claydoh]

Re: no GUI after update?

yes, the servers seemed to be having hiccups, so the package installa/reinstalls did not complete - seems fixed just now on my end - may need to re-run apt-get update/dist-upgrade, etc

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

Still getting the same error message.

Drat. I suppose you know what it means when we repeat our "solution", while expecting a different result .....

sudo service kdm stop

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

sudo nvidia-xconfig

sudo service kdm start

and then I'll probably be joining claydoh's stumped club.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

ok, Claydoh--I tried it again and it looks like it connected this time:

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall kdebase-workspace-bin
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid/partner Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources [32.7kB]
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid/partner Sources
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages [44.5kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources [11.8kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages [1,994B]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources [656B]
Fetched 91.7kB in 2s (36.5kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenal1 libswscale0 libxvidcore4 libsvga1 liblircclient0 mplayer libavformat52 sdparm ethtool libx264-85 libenca0 liblzo2-2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 mplayer-nogui
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1,829kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 122101 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu14 (using .../kdebase-workspace-bin_4%3a4.4.2-0ubuntu14_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdebase-workspace-bin ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up kdebase-workspace-bin (4:4.4.2-0ubuntu14) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo rm /tmp/.X0-lock
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo service kdm start
kdm start/running, process 1647
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo reboot

I'm gonna reboot and then try dibl's new suggestion. Here goes!

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

ok dibl--your turn:

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
[sudo] password for sarah:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-current is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenal1 libswscale0 libxvidcore4 libsvga1 liblircclient0 mplayer libavformat52 sdparm ethtool libx264-85 libenca0 liblzo2-2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 mplayer-nogui
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo nvidia-xconfig

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo service kdm start
kdm start/running, process 1443
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo reboot


/fingers crossed

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo service kdm start
kdm start/running, process 1443

Nope. If you didn't get the greeter, after "service kdm start", then it's no go.

I don't know what's wrong with your KDM -- I don't ever remember seeing this failure to launch the greeter.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

hmmm. as satisfying as it is to stump you I was really hoping it would be a simple fix.

Thank you very much for all of your effort anyway--I've learned a lot!

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

I came across something in an old 2009 bug report that's interesting. Can you

cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager

and post what you see there, please?

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/kdm

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

Rats. No problem there. I think I'm in claydoh's club of useless helpers, at this point.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

not useless! just not successful solving this problem.

I've learned so much!

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

I just reviewed the thread, and see we never got a look at the X log. If you can

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and paste in the output, I'll look it over and see if anything useful jumps out.

Also, were there any issues or errors with removing the nouveau driver -- did you run the update-initramfs -u command at the end of that?

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

I found this while I was mucking around in kate. it's a text file titled "wtf_fixed_it" seems like it's related somehow, what do you tink?

cd /home/sarah/
sl
cd Desktop/
ls
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run
~
cd /home/sarah/Desktop/
ls
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-pkg1.run
reboot
cd
ls
ls -l
ls -la
ifconfig -
ifconfig -a
ls
cd /home/sarah/
ls
find .
find . |grep NVIDI
cd Desktop/
mv NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.* /root
cd /root
l s-l
ls -l
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run
reboot
cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.
ls
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run
reboot
ls
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run
cd /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11
l
cd ..
ls -l
dmesg |less
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
x
X
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
X
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
X
sl
ls
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot
cd
ks
ls
mv NetworkManager /etc/init.d/
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
dmsg
dmesg
dmesg
apt-cache searchmad
apt-cache search mad
apt-cache search mad |grep wifi
sudo apt-get install madwifi-tools
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
ls
lspci
iwconfig
lsmod
modprobe wlan
modprobe ath_hal
modprobe ath_pci
modprobe ath_pcic
lsmost
lsmosd
iwconfig
dhclient wlan0
/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
dhclient wlan0
ifconfig -a
cd
ls
ls-l
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run
cat /var/log/
ls
cd /var/log
ls
cat nvidia-installer.log
ifconfig
l
ls
cd
cd /mnt
ls
mkdir usb
fdisk /dev/sdb
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb4 usb/
cd usb/
ls
cp NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.15-pkg1.run ~/
cd
umount /mnt/usb
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.15-pkg1.run
reboot

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

That's all one long text file? That's crazy -- it's like a long record of activity installing two different nvidia drivers, plus mounting and looking at a USB memory stick, and I'm not sure what else -- running fdisk and vim, among other things. Where on your system did you find that?

But, aside from the curiosity of it, I don't see anything there relevant to your video problem. That is all about your old Princeton Graphics monitor -- it needs a modeline in the "Screen" stanza of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

*crisis*

I got into kate and added the bit of code to the display subsection:

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection

and rebooted-nothing changed so I added "meta" to modes and rebooted and now my computer is "stuck" on the blue screen with the kubuntu logo and the five dots.

should I press "esc" during boot-up to enter the grub?