This morning I got a 'display cannot be determined' popup when I booted. On hitting Enter I got another popup with a menu prompting for an action. However I had no mouse pointer and the keyboard did not respond to Space, Tab, arrows or Enter so I could not actually make a choice. Hitting Escape got me out of it and the machine continued its boot sequence, but with errors and without a display manager.
After logging in on a text console I ran 'startx' with no problems.
Why I got the error in the first place is another question. It is possible that I did not switch on the monitor early enough :-)
Severity: not something that a newbie would be able to handle.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xfce4 4.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-62.102-generic 3.13.11-ckt24
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-62-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.12
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 25 09:40:05 2015
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-23 (366 days ago)
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ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: raph 1988 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=0a5a1243-9e96-4a67-8b26-0454cc6d2d8b
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1e4e:0102 Cubeternet GL-UPC822 UVC WebCam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0461:4d22 Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=233aacc0-7f14-471f-b29f-a9912660d912 ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-65.106-generic 3.13.11-ckt26
PulseList:
Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-65-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-65-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.127.15
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Tags: trusty
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-65-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-23 (411 days ago)
UserGroups:
WpaSupplicantLog:
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 08/16/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: MS-6570E
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd08/16/2004:svn:pn:pvr:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-6570E:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
This happened at some point in the boot sequence, and therefore before the Xfce Desktop Environment was actually started.