I apologize for such a lengthy message but it's the one I posted to ubuntuforums. As the subject states I've lost my GUI apparently because the machine can't connect to X. Here's what I sent and I thank any and all in advance! Just to clarify, I updated some normal updates as prompted by Update Manager about 3 days ago. I'm 16.04 and they were normal security updates. Now when I boot the machine starts in graphic mode as (all hand typed and a real pain in the a**!) [CODE]ubuntu-laptop login:[/CODE] and I can log in as myself (ubuntu) [CODE]ubuntu-laptop login: ubuntu[/CODE] [CODE]Password[/CODE] then I try, which has always worked, [CODE]ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop: ~$ startx[/CODE] returns [CODE]X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date 2016-07-19 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu Current Operating System: Linux ubuntu-laptop 4.4.0-117-generic #141-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 13 11:58:07 UTC 2018 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-117-generic root=UUID=ea9f5446-2b36-4ba1-bcfs-ac786107fd58 ro vga=792 quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux vt.handoff=7 Build Date: 13 October 2017 01:57:05PM xorg-server 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Current version of pixman: 0.33.6 Before reporting problems check http://wiki.x.org to make sure you have the latest version Markers: [I]various symbols[I] (==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log" time, (current time) (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" waiting for X server to shut down (II) server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.esetting enabled.xinit: connection to X server lost[/CODE] So I get no GUI at all with me as user. However, I have a guest user that starts lightdm all by itself if I (ctrl+alt+f7) I can switch to my user in a terminal but the desktop remains lightdm and as guest. Some apps run, like libreoffice, and most do not like firefox, thunderbird, synaptic
for Brian O, Did you change your login manager? Can you add a new user and get a gui desktop? I had similar mishap a few years ago and what you have is a settings problem in your default user. Swithcinig from gdm to ldm(or vice versa) can get you into trouble. So, if you have the Guest account with a gui, but not your account it is a setting. I use Xubuntu, also 16.04, I will look at my config files for a hint. All is not lost, just misplaced. Hang in there. Thank you, Ted P. On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:32 AM, <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
I apologize for such a lengthy message but it's the one I posted to ubuntuforums. As the subject states I've lost my GUI apparently because the machine can't connect to X. Here's what I sent and I thank any and all in advance!
Just to clarify, I updated some normal updates as prompted by Update Manager about 3 days ago. I'm 16.04 and they were normal security updates. Now when I boot the machine starts in graphic mode as (all hand typed and a real pain in the a**!) [CODE]ubuntu-laptop login:[/CODE] and I can log in as myself (ubuntu) [CODE]ubuntu-laptop login: ubuntu[/CODE] [CODE]Password[/CODE] then I try, which has always worked, [CODE]ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop: ~$ startx[/CODE] returns [CODE]X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date 2016-07-19 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu Current Operating System: Linux ubuntu-laptop 4.4.0-117-generic #141-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 13 11:58:07 UTC 2018 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-117-generic root=UUID=ea9f5446-2b36-4ba1-bcfs-ac786107fd58 ro vga=792 quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux vt.handoff=7 Build Date: 13 October 2017 01:57:05PM xorg-server 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Current version of pixman: 0.33.6 Before reporting problems check http://wiki.x.org to make sure you have the latest version Markers: [I]various symbols[I] (==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log" time, (current time) (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" waiting for X server to shut down (II) server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.esetting enabled.xinit: connection to X server lost[/CODE] So I get no GUI at all with me as user. However, I have a guest user that starts lightdm all by itself if I (ctrl+alt+f7) I can switch to my user in a terminal but the desktop remains lightdm and as guest. Some apps run, like libreoffice, and most do not like firefox, thunderbird, synaptic
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On Fri, March 16, 2018 10:13 am, Ted Pomeroy wrote: Thanks Ted I didn't change anything,just did the update. Weirdly tho, a while back the machine started booting into guest user with no login screen. I would logout and login as me. As I wrote, weird but functional.I didn't change to a different wm. Added new user but can't load a wm, ldm or otherwise. I tried openbox but get an xserver error as below in my post. I at least have this older machine but not my current work files. Do you know of a way for me to access the files on my current machine from this older one? Of course not all would be usable given the changes in software over the years. So again, thanks for the response and help Ted! Brian
for Brian O, Did you change your login manager? Can you add a new user and get a gui desktop? I had similar mishap a few years ago and what you have is a settings problem in your default user. Swithcinig from gdm to ldm(or vice versa) can get you into trouble. So, if you have the Guest account with a gui, but not your account it is a setting. I use Xubuntu, also 16.04, I will look at my config files for a hint. All is not lost, just misplaced. Hang in there. Thank you, Ted P.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:32 AM, <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
I apologize for such a lengthy message but it's the one I posted to ubuntuforums. As the subject states I've lost my GUI apparently because the machine can't connect to X. Here's what I sent and I thank any and all in advance!
Just to clarify, I updated some normal updates as prompted by Update Manager about 3 days ago. I'm 16.04 and they were normal security updates. Now when I boot the machine starts in graphic mode as (all hand typed and a real pain in the a**!) [CODE]ubuntu-laptop login:[/CODE] and I can log in as myself (ubuntu) [CODE]ubuntu-laptop login: ubuntu[/CODE] [CODE]Password[/CODE] then I try, which has always worked, [CODE]ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop: ~$ startx[/CODE] returns [CODE]X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date 2016-07-19 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu Current Operating System: Linux ubuntu-laptop 4.4.0-117-generic #141-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 13 11:58:07 UTC 2018 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-117-generic root=UUID=ea9f5446-2b36-4ba1-bcfs-ac786107fd58 ro vga=792 quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux vt.handoff=7 Build Date: 13 October 2017 01:57:05PM xorg-server 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.7 Current version of pixman: 0.33.6 Before reporting problems check http://wiki.x.org to make sure you have the latest version Markers: [I]various symbols[I] (==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log" time, (current time) (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" waiting for X server to shut down (II) server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.esetting enabled.xinit: connection to X server lost[/CODE] So I get no GUI at all with me as user. However, I have a guest user that starts lightdm all by itself if I (ctrl+alt+f7) I can switch to my user in a terminal but the desktop remains lightdm and as guest. Some apps run, like libreoffice, and most do not like firefox, thunderbird, synaptic
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Brian, Don't give up. If you have a gui for the Guest account then there is a setting problem in your User account. Take a look via commandline as Sam suggests. Also use the older machine to review the Display manager vs. X window system vs Wayland. Wayland is the newer system and might be a change you didn't anticipate. Now the easiest way to access the files is to use a usb or pull the hard drive and use an adapter to attach it to your other machine. If you don't have the adapter go back to solving the original problem. Have you tried to add a new user with admin privileges. If that new user account has a gui, then you surely have an error in one of the config's saved in your original account. Keep in touch, there is always a solution. Thank you, Ted
On Fri, March 16, 2018 4:01 pm, Ted Pomeroy wrote: Thanks Ted, I'm not seeing x processes thou I can't say I'd recognize them for sure! Interestingly when I boot the machine starts xfcewm, just like it used to gdm. No password no nothing just straight to the GUI. Previously I could choose to logout and then the normal gnome login screen would appear with me and guest as choices. I'd choose me and enter my password. All was good. the XFCE desktop does not give me that option and switching totty and logging in as me doesn't produce a GUI. I created a new user with admin privileges and cannot startx or even lightdm, which somehow has become default. That's where I leave it tonite.... Thanks for any and all help- eternally grateful My response, in part, to Sam follows
Brian, Don't give up. If you have a gui for the Guest account then there is a setting problem in your User account. Take a look via commandline as Sam suggests. Also use the older machine to review the Display manager vs. X window system vs Wayland. Wayland is the newer system and might be a change you didn't anticipate. Now the easiest way to access the files is to use a usb or pull the hard drive and use an adapter to attach it to your other machine. If you don't have the adapter go back to solving the original problem. Have you tried to add a new user with admin privileges. If that new user account has a gui, then you surely have an error in one of the config's saved in your original account. Keep in touch, there is always a solution. Thank you, Ted _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 08:32:29AM -0600, okeefe@cybermesa.com wrote: Probably worth looking for clues here:
(==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log" time, (current time) Can we see something like: $grep -2 '(EE)' ~/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log
But my guess is this problem will turn out to be about too many display managers or multiple X sessions or X fighting with wayland or whatever the ubuntu wayland-competitor was called etc. I'd be interested in seeing if any X servers are running. Maybe something like: $ps ax | grep Xorg or even $ps ax | grep X And if you find a process running X it's probably a display manager that you aren't using, and maybe it can be shut off i.e: $sudo /etc/init.d/somedm stop -- sam
Too much in this thread for me to have read it all, but I have handled these often. If you're downtown on Sunday call me (write privately for phone #) and I'll look at it with you. The things to do from a virtual console are to sudo apt /etc/init.d/lightdm stop sudo apt /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop sudo apt /etc/init.d/kdm stop sudo apt /etc/init.d/xdm stop and so on for any *dm. Then you try your startx. You can also try a restart on the less flakey display managers, like gdm3 ("sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart") If you are experimenting with our GUI running you can run "startx -- :2" (or :3 or higher) to see what happens. For this list attaching the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log might be useful, as well as transcripts of startx with different displays like :2 or :3. On thing I'm not clear on is what really happens when you power on the computer. Your original email (I was unable to follow all the followups) does not make it clear if that first login you do is graphical or on a virtual text console. If the former, then the whole rest of the message is strange because starting X from an alread-graphical situation is not the thing to try. If that first login is on a virtual text console then your situation seems to be that you booted and it came up with vt1 instead of vt7, but at the same time automatically logged you in as guest on vt7. I have never seen that, and it smells of some weird mucking with user accounts. Make sure that guest is not set to automatically log in. Among other problems with the precision of this problem report is that you don't mention what desktop is your default, and which one comes up when you go to vt7 and are logged in as guest. Maybe it's in the many later messages. Anyway, call me up if you're downtown and we'll experiment.
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Ted Pomeroy