[Cialug] Ubuntu 12.04

[chris rheinherren]

I had a similar issue with the 12.04 upgrade. The moment I reinstalled the
nvidia drivers. Compiz crashes. I loose my desktop and everything else. Not
even a mouse arrow. Even tried it as a fresh install and get the same
results.

And that made attempting to use cltr+alt+F1 impossible. Always had a
message that my monitor couldn't display that video mode.



On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> > If your computer seems frozen, even though the mouse works then the X
> > server probably crashed. I have seen that before, exactly as you
> described.
> > Because x is dead it won't respond to (or give control of) keyboard or
> > mouse events. You can confirm this by using ssh. Check your x log for ee
> > errors. If you have an nvidia card, try one of the other drivers.
>
> That's what I figured at first.  But I can't even Ctrl-Alt-F1.  There
> are no errors in /var/log/Xorg.*.  And for some reason my nvidia
> driver was disabled/uninstalled in the upgrade.  I reinstalled it and
> that took care of the screen funniness, and it seemed to slow down the
> crashing for a bit, but it's back again.
>
> > Also, at the login screen click the gear icon and try unity 2d to see if
> > that helps.
>
> Unity 2D did not help.  Though getting into "Gnome classic (no
> effects)" seems to be helping, though I've only been using it for 10
> minutes now.
>
> Also, weirdness: Alt-Tab is not working at all.  And Duplicity is not
> backing up to Ubuntu One.  It says "Remote manifest does not match
> local one".  Not that I care about that.  I'll get it fixed.  I'm just
> frustrated by this upgrade.
>
> --
> Todd
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