This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this
being fixed with a reinstall. Thanks again for taking the time to
report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit
any future bugs you may find.
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Status: Needs Info =
Guess this can be closed. While trying to remove whatever caused this
behaviour I actually put myself into a dependency hell I cannot fix
myself without putting very much time into it - and I won't have that
time coming week. So I decided to just reinstall the image.
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gdm/xorg problem
I tried replacing gdm with kdm. It didn't really change much, but kdm shows the
following error within the font failures:
../../src/xcb_lock.c:28: _XCBUnlockDisplay: Assertion
`xcb_get_request_sent(dpy-xcb-connection) == dpy-request' failed.
I've had problems with libxcb-xlib before so I
I now completely removed xserver, gdm, gnome and kde, cleaned apt cache
and removed /etc/X11 and /etc/gdm as well as /usr/share/X11 and
/usr/share/gdm. After reinstalling those packages, I'm still having the
same problem - and I'm really near to giving up now as there's just no
hint on whats not
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. Have you tried logging in as a different user? If not could
you please try that and report back. Thanks in advance.
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Assignee: (unassigned) = Brian Murray
Status: Unconfirmed =
As I stated before, the login screen doesn't come up. I still added a new user
and used that one to sudo to a root shell and restart gdm (I don't see how that
would help, but who knows :-) ). It however didn't change.
Basically, the login screen is replaced by some black screen with some X mouse
