[mythtv-users] Mythbutu 11.04 -> 11.10 breaks X-server
Alex Halovanic
halovanic at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 03:06:23 UTC 2012
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:40 PM, jk90090 <jk90090 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/12 5:11 PM, R KANNAN wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had a working version of Mythbuntu 11.04 on my laptop and I gave in
> > to frequent suggestions from it to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.00 this
> > afternoon. Friday afternoon is not a good time to update. After
> > installing the updates, it restarted and I found that the X server is
> > broke.
> >
> > I can login to the consoles Alt-F1...Alt-F5 fine but the X server
> > shows a blank seen. The Myth backend seems to be running fine and so
> > is Mythweb web server (Apache). The file system seems OK but the
> > X-display flashes for a few times and there is a blank screen. I have
> > tried..
> >
> > init 3
> > init 5
> >
> > to restart the X server with the same result.
> >
> > I see an error message flash by just after grub but I cannot make out
> > anything. It switches then to purple splash screen before the flashing
> > followed by
> >
> > I thought the update should not change the configuration files and so
> > should work as before.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> Start with looking in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors.
> Next, I found Ubuntu troublesome when trying to install video drivers,
> so there could be a kernel driver mismatch or something. apt-get update
> && apt-get upgrade to make sure everything is updated and installed.
> For instance today I loaded Mythbuntu, which defaulted to Nvidia 175.x
> driver. I enabled the repo for 285.x (or whatever # it is) and
> installed it, but 175 just stayed as the working driver. I'm no Ubuntu
> expert, so there was probably a trick to getting it working, but in the
> end I just removed the 175 driver which made the nvidia-current (285)
> become the working driver.
>
> -JK
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By any chance did you have auto-login enabled? If so, try
deleting/renaming your /etc/gdm/custom.conf. This fixed the issue for me
(at the cost of no longer logging in automatically).
-Alex
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