I've recreated the situation described in the bug description by installing a virtual machine with Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.2 and using 'hwe-support-status --show-replacements' to determine packages to upgrade I ended up with a system that booted without X. The file /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log seems to contain information about the problem.
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1161): WARNING **: Error activating plugin 'Background'
gnome-shell: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I've recreated the situation described in the bug description by installing a virtual machine with Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.2 and using 'hwe-support-status --show- replacements' to determine packages to upgrade I ended up with a system that booted without X. The file /var/log/ gdm/:0- greeter. log seems to contain information about the problem.
** (gnome- settings- daemon: 1161): WARNING **: Error activating plugin 'Background' egl.so. 1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gnome-shell: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-