After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 I can only start X by terminal startx and some windows are modal

[Steph Bredenhann]

After I have upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 I first had a problem with my screen, it showed black with a cross cursor and nothing else. I got that fixed by installing latest NVIDIA drivers.

Now, when I run gedit form a terminal I get the following message:

(gedit:26002): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported

This is my graphics

RESULT OF: sudo lshw -c video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF116 [GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:fc000000-fdffffff memory:d8000000-dfffffff memory:d4000000-d7ffffff ioport:bc00(size=128) memory:fe000000-fe07ffff

Further, windows are modal and cannot be resized!

Any advice?

[Steph Bredenhann (bredsj)]

The following is more info on my system

>lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
Codename: raring

/etc/default/grub
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text"

Note: I must boot into text mode and startx

>sudo lshw -c video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF116 [GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:fc000000-fdffffff memory:d8000000-dfffffff memory:d4000000-d7ffffff ioport:bc00(size=128) memory:fe000000-fe07ffff

[Steph Bredenhann (bredsj)]

Sorry, grub should read

/etc/default/grub
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

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