prevents successful boot to desktop and gets stuck in a trying-to-start-X loop
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Upon upgrading the package from version 18.04.1 to 18.04.2 and subsequent reboot, the system is rendered unable to start lightdm and gets stuck in an endless loop retrying.
This happened on 2 laptops, one company machine and one personal machine.
I'm running bionic beaver on both of them, with bionic-updates and bionic-proposed repositories enabled (however, xubuntu-
Downgrading and putting the package on hold is a viable workaround for the time being.
$ apt-cache policy xubuntu-
xubuntu-
Installed: 18.04.1
Candidate: 18.04.2
Version table:
18.04.2 500
500 http://
500 http://
*** 18.04.1 100
100 /var/lib/
17.10.0 500
500 http://
Changed in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Note that on my personal laptop, there's a difference in the Xorg.0.log regarding the detection of the NVidia gfx board, the failing run using xubuntu- default- settings package version 18.04.2 and the succeeding run using version 18.04.1:
$ diff -u <( sed -e 's/^\[[^]]*\] //' failing_ run_normal/ Xorg.0. log ) <( sed -e 's/^\[[^]]*\] //' succeeding_ run_normal/ Xorg.0. log ) Xorg.0. log", Time: Sat Mar 3 10:19:26 2018 Xorg.0. log", Time: Sat Mar 3 10:28:10 2018 xorg.conf. d" X11/xorg. conf.d" xorg/modules" 16777216, 0xb0000000/ 268435456, I/O @ 0x00006000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 16777216, 0x90000000/ 268435456, 0xa0000000/ 33554432, I/O @ 0x00005000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288 xorg/modules/ extensions/ libglx. so
--- /dev/fd/63 2018-03-03 10:56:14.561604710 +0100
+++ /dev/fd/62 2018-03-03 10:56:14.561604710 +0100
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
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/
+(==) Log file: "/var/log/
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/
(==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/
(II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
-(II) Loader magic: 0x5616c8d2d020
+(II) Loader magic: 0x55d268f62020
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 23.0
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
(II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
(II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
(--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:191b:103c:820d rev 6, Mem @ 0xa2000000/
+(--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:139a:103c:820d rev 162, Mem @ 0xa3000000/
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[following lines omitted, as there's no significant difference apart from more activity due to the DM actually coming up in the succeeding run]