Ok, so I got it fixed, and it turns out that:
- what broke everything was installing nvidia-current.
- uninstalling nvidia* didn't fix the issue (this is huge: uninstalling
the package does not completely reverse the installation)
- I got it completely fixed by manually removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(after apt-get-purging nvidia*) and rebooting. A pretty easy fix, but
complicated as hell to figure out.
On 13/10/13 23:39, matteo sisti sette wrote:
If I understand correctly, many people in this list are developers
working in ensuring Ubuntu quality, right? So, since this issue has been
reported a lot of times and there are a few bug reports about it in
Launchpad and a few questions in askubuntu (none of the answers to
which, is working for me), and since this is a huge issue that
completely breaks an ubuntu installation to an apparently unrecoverable
point, making it a tremendous threat tu Ubuntu quality, I must deduce
that a lot of people here must either have observed and thoroughly
investigated this issue, or be doing so. So, I think there must be
somebody here who has found out some workaround for this. I supplicate
some of people to please, please share any working workaround with me.
2013/10/13 matteo sisti sette <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Oh, given how 13.04 got screwed up in two days, which was a
supposed-to-be stable release, I don't dare to imagine how a "pretty
much ready" version will work
2013/10/13 Jackson Doak <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
That was a bit strange, but welcome to the team.
Maybe you could try installing 13.10 since it's pretty much ready.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, matteo sisti sette
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Ubuntu QA team's website invites visitors to join the
list and introduce
> themselves, so here I am introducing myself to the list.
>
> I am an Ubuntu user and I have been more and more frustrated
by the
> exponentially growing unusability and unstability of Ubuntu
throughout the
> last years. But I will focus on unstability here.
>
> Now I am astonished to see the point it has reached.
> I have installed a fresh new Ubuntu 13.04 on a brand new
computer.
> First, the Firefox browser stopped working after updating it
(simply via
> apt-get) and it turned out to be because ~/.cache/mozilla
somehow got the
> wrong owner (root) rendering it unaccessible and preventing
Firefox from
> reading the user profofiles and hence to work at all.
>
> But now, after a reboot, I find myself with an empty desktop
with no Unity
> launcher nor system bar. None of the workarounds described at
>
http://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears/
> or
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1212987 work.
>
> So after delirious usability killers (I won't mention them
here as I want to
> focus on UNSTABILITY), after the impossibility to hibernate,
after the
> impossibility to suspend on low battery, after random x.org
<http://x.org> crashes started
> to appear which would just suddenly log you out destroying
all unsaved data
> at the blinking of an eye, now we have reached the point
where you may just
> reboot and find yourself with a completely unusable system,
roughly
> equivalent to one that won't even boot. Which means you are
forced to either
> waste a couple of days googling for a fix, or reinstall the
whole system
> just until this happens again.
>
> End of rant.
> Matteo
>
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