Problems with 14.04 upgrade...

[GH]

Le 21/04/2014 23:20, BRM a écrit :
>
> On Monday, April 21, 2014 12:32 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> BRM wrote:
>>> I upgraded my AMD64 3200 based desktop last night from 13.10 to 14.04
>>> and have run into a couple issues - one of which is a show stopper.
>>> 2. When bototing up, it never gets past plymouthd. The system just
>>> sits there. If I press ESCape, then I can see the list of
>>> "OK"/*failed"; there's a couple things that fail (don't have the
>>> exact list off hand) but I can see that it keeps trying to come up,
>>> but after each service is started, it is almost immediately stopped;
>>> sometimes a few things get up before things are shutoff; but it never
>>> really finishes booting.
>>>
>>> As I noted earlier, I can go to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1) and I have
>>> access without an issue.
>> I have seen this with an upgrade 12.04 -> 14.04 [1]. If you had kdm but
>> not lightdm installed before the upgrade, this may be the same issue.
>> The problem was that kdm is replaced by lightdm during the upgrade.
>> However I had a stale config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Removing
>> that config file solved the issue and lightdm started.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>> [1] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297936>
>>
> That's probably what it is. I prefer KDM of lightdm...can't figure out why they
> are forcing a switch. I uninstalled lightdm on 13.10...I'll give that a try tonight.
>
>
> Ben
I used to use gnome3 (gdm) but had a lot of problem so I came back to 
lightdm, nearer kdm anyway.