I recently installed ubuntu studio 14.4/trusty and though the installation seemd to go well and the system had been working fine, yesterday when I ran the gui "Software Updater" and did a restart when the updates were done (as it wanted me to do) the computer went through a welcome screen that says "Ubuntu Studio for creative humans etc," then to a log in where I entered my password, then to a blank screen. The first time that blank screen had (I'm quite certain) my desktopp image, but the boot process stopped there. The next times I tried to boot it got to almost the same stage, but never to the desktop image, instead there was only a blank white screen (I don't know if it's significant but rather than pure white it was white with what looked like many single pixels of a darker color, as if the screen were dirty). Normally the next thing presented would be a dialog offering that I could select a session, but it would get stuck before that. In its stuck state the mouse still worked, with a mouse pointer image moving around on the screen. I could also do ctl-alt-Fn and get to a console, but to be honest I didn't know what to do from there.
For unusual reasons I happen to have a backup of the root partition made with fsarchiver just before I had tried running the "Software Updater" and with this I could last night restore the partition to the state it was in just before the system was hosed. If it would be helpful in debugging this issue I could for example run "Software Updater" again and then mount the presumably hosed system from a copy of Quantal I have on an external drive, then copy and upload somehow the apt and dpkg logs (and/or others). I don't know if it's possible for you to contact me (I'm new to launcpad) but assuming it is, then please let me know if you'd like me to do this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283826 Title: lightdm hangs after updates Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: New Status in Light Display Manager: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I've updated today my Trusy Thar installation. I can't login to Unity, with my account, or a guest account. Lightdm hangs after password input, or after I click on the Guest account. Also, I used to auto-login. Now it greets me with the screen where I must input my password. After inputing it, lightdm hangs and I can't login. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: lightdm 1.9.8-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Feb 23 23:16:24 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-25 (29 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64+mac (20140115) LightdmConfig: [SeatDefaults] autologin-guest=false autologin-user=cristi autologin-user-timeout=0 autologin-session=lightdm-autologin SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/1283826/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
