Re: Help with lost GUI in Ubuntu 11.10

On 29/01/12 16:39, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook<phb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for replying. I see no graphical interface at all: the last thing
before a login prompt is a message that Plymouth has been stopped
(paraphrase) and the relevant logs - kern.log, Xorg.log.0 and others I have
forgotten - claim that there is no support in the kernel for nvidia.

Until I updated from 3.0.0-14 to 3.0.0-15 I had no problems. If the log
content is pertinent I will be happy to collect it, but given that I'm in
the "unhappy with Unity" gang, I'm not far from a re-installation with
Lubuntu with which I'm very happy on other machines. :-)

Try logging in the console, and type:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia*

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

sudo shutdown -r now


Then let us know if the problem was fixed.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a spin, but even if it works it won't have identified why the update caused a failure and will be an avoidance, rather than a diagnosis and fix.

Peter HB


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