I had the same issue. Turned out to be that the kernel that was actually running was not the same as the one that was being installed and, supposedly, the nvidia driver was compiling against.
Do a 'uname -a' and check to see if you are running what you think you are running (in my case 3.11.0 vs 3.13.0). Also, an 'lsmod | grep nvidia' showed nothing on mine. Installing linux-generic and a reboot solved the issue for me (ie 'sudo apt-get install linux-generic') -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-drivers-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1373968 Title: GUI does not work after update Status in “ubuntu-drivers-common” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After logging into PC today and running the software updater, various system updates were downloaded. I was promped to restart, which I did. At reboot, the system would get as far as displaying the login screen. After I entered my password, the system appears to hang, with no disk activity. I have a dual monitor system, but only the left monitor is active, in that it displays a purple Ubuntu splash screen, without the login box. I have tried restarting a number of times, but the result is always the same. I can log in by using the advanced options and drop into the root console. I am using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. uname -a reports 3.11.0-20-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 1 20:40:25 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hardware is a Dell Precision T3400 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1373968/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
