[SOLVED] Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS No GUI On Boot worked in 12.04

colorpurple21859 · 12-14-2014, 09:33 PM

according to this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...nchrome.4.html The correct driver is openchrome so maybe this will work:

Code:

Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Card0"
       Driver      "openchrome"
EndSection

or

Code:

Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Card0"
       Driver      "openchrome"
       option      "noaccel"     
EndSection

widget · 12-14-2014, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gkasica

As far as I know I didn't have any back ports or ppa's. 12.04.1 LTS was totally up to date and without issues. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade immediately before doing do-release-update from console command line. I don't recall ever being offered a 12.04.4 LTS version. I looked at the release notes and don't recall seeing any issues that I had to be concerned with before the upgrade. The actual upgrade went flawlessly with this one exception. What's the best way to go about working through the broken package or messed over config file? Would it be good to apt-get purge all relevant items and reload? If so what items do I dump? Or is there a better answer. I have a 12.04.1 LTS server still working - the production box - but the video cards are different but go to the same Dell LCD display via a port switching device. Does any of this help?

I would be surprised if your 12.04.1 install is not at a higher step number than that. The first step is usually sometime in July after a LTS is released in April. You are not offered them. It just happens with normal package upgrades.

I believe Ubuntu still has a /etc/ubuntu_version file which should give the number.

The results;

Code:

root@lounge:/# cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.10

in chroot to my Squeeze (old stable - now LTS) install. My Wheezy install is 7.7.

Ubuntu works the same way. Those numbers just show up with package upgrades.

Recently we have Debian 8 replace Jessie/Sid in our testing and unstable versions.

gkasica · 12-14-2014, 11:18 PM

There is no /etc/xorg.conf file on either system...could it be located elsewhere? I seem to recall it moved at some point.
And some poking around shows that D3 BIOS reference refers to the Ethernet card which is working just fine despite the message.

trying to find xorg.conf showed the following after updatedb to make sure it was current - there isn't one on either system.

working system
==============
# locate xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-quirks.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-trackpoint.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics-quirks.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.d.5.gz

looking at the xorg.conf.failsafe
# more /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

non-working system
==================
# locate xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-quirks.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-trackpoint.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics-quirks.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.d.5.gz

looking at the xorg.conf.failsafe
# more /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"

THey are identical, which from what I understand should be the case as fallback uses vesa.

Searching I do see that this openchrome driver is installed
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/trusty,now 1:0.3.3-1build1 i386 [installed]
and others are not:
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-dbg/trusty 1:0.3.3-1build1 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-quantal/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-quantal-dbg/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-raring/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-raring-dbg/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-saucy/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-saucy-dbg/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-trusty/trusty-updates 3:6 i386
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-trusty-dbg/trusty-updates 3:6 i386

gkasica · 12-14-2014, 11:28 PM

Looking at thenew systyem I get

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
# cat /etc/debian_version
jessie/sid

THe old working system is at
Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
# cat /etc/debian_version
wheezy/sid

which was the same as the new sysytem before updating.

EDDY1 · 12-14-2014, 11:32 PM

You have to create xorg.conf
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html
https://wiki.debian.org/Xorg

gkasica · 12-15-2014, 12:00 AM

Attached arethe results of

Xorg -configure

and the log. Had to do some renaming to get the upload to work but they should be obvious.
with no X or lightdm running

it did not complete but it seems to find the card & Drivers.

Question is the working system doesn't have an /etc/xorg.conf and its running....why?

EDDY1 · 12-15-2014, 12:27 AM

sudo mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

gkasica · 12-15-2014, 07:54 AM

Even though the Xorg -configure ended with an error?

root@saturn:~# Xorg -configure

X.Org X Server 1.15.1
Release Date: 2014-04-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-61-generic i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux saturn 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:44 UTC 2014 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-43-generic root=UUID=51ce8dde-7308-4e71-8c01-122395e0f18d ro splash quiet nomdmonddf nomdmonisw nomdmonddf nomdmonisw vt.handoff=7
Build Date: 09 December 2014 11:17:00PM
xorg-server 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.5 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
Current version of pixman: 0.30.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Dec 15 07:53:50 2014
List of video drivers:
sisusb
cirrus
siliconmotion
qxl
ztv
r128
intel
mga
nouveau
geode
vmware
sis
neomagic
modesetting
trident
tdfx
s3
radeon
savage
openchrome
mach64
ati
vesa
fbdev
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x4f) [0xb76ecc3f]
(EE) 1: Xorg (0xb7544000+0x1aca24) [0xb76f0a24]
(EE) 2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb752140c]
(EE)
(EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Aborted (core dumped)

EDDY1 · 12-15-2014, 10:17 AM

You still need to move xorg.conf.new

gkasica · 12-15-2014, 10:26 AM

Its moved and renamed, but I won't be able to test it until later today when I'm back in front of the actual console to see if it starts or what it does.

EDDY1 · 12-15-2014, 11:17 AM

It appears the file wasn't renamed,as stated here

Quote:

/root/xorg.conf.new

Try this

Quote:

cd /
ls

to see if xorg.conf.new is still listed there, if it is

Quote:

sudo mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

gkasica · 12-15-2014, 11:19 AM

As I said above Its moved and renamed, but I won't be able to test it until later today when I'm back in front of the actual console to see if it starts or what it does.

gkasica · 12-15-2014, 07:04 PM

Same story...screen goes black and monitor light goes out. CTL-ALT-F1 will after a bit return a text prompt.
Xorg.0.log attached

Fred Caro · 12-15-2014, 08:03 PM

same problem after upgrading from Kubuntu 12.02 to 14.04 but only after subsequent kernel updates, support for via unichrome cards seems to be missing on later kernels, present as a module on 3.2.64.

Fred.

gkasica · 12-15-2014, 08:54 PM

You mean kernel 3.2.64? I'm on 3.13.0-43 according to uname. How do I get there? Unichrome driver is installed here.