Can't boot to desktop after upgrade to 17.04

[Mark Fraser]

On Friday, 16 June 2017 15:46:19 BST Nils Kassube wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > Upgraded to 17.04 yesterday and since then I have been unable to get
> > to the desktop unless I use the recovery mode.
> > 
> > Here is my Xorg.log https://pastebin.com/ehcDGent
> 
> To me the log looks like you have an nvidia graphics card in your
> machine and the nvidia driver doesn't want to load correctly. Maybe the
> upgrade didn't properly install the nvidia driver. Therefore I would
> suggest to reinstall the nvidia driver (in recovery mode).
> 
> If that doesn't work, you could uninstall the nvidia driver and reboot.
> That should then start the nouveau driver and you should at least get a
> working desktop. Maybe you could also expeiment with the other versions
> of the nvidia driver, but I have no idea if that would help.

That's what I ended up doing. Seems to be OK now.

Just need to fix everything else that seems to have broke in the upgrade now.


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