** Description changed: My yakkety installation is now for some reason in shape that lightdm only starts with a black screen, although mouse cursor is shown and movable and "wifi networks available" popup is shown at the top right corner. + + After some while this disappears and the system goes to some sort of tty + switching loop where sometimes text cursor is shown and sometimes just + blank screen. If I want to recover text console control of machine I + need to quickly after booting switch to tty1 and stop lightdm. + + This started happening last week after some upgrades and a reboot. I've tried reinstalling and everything I can think of, but I can't fix it. Meanwhile using sddm I can't log in to Unity 7 or 8, and gdm doesn't start at all. I couldn't also use ubuntu-bug since I can't use the browser interface from command line (otherwise it works fine until that point) and it segfaults under Plasma environment while collecting information.
** Attachment added: "lightdm logs" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1627502/+attachment/4748365/+files/lightdm.tar ** Description changed: My yakkety installation is now for some reason in shape that lightdm only starts with a black screen, although mouse cursor is shown and movable and "wifi networks available" popup is shown at the top right corner. After some while this disappears and the system goes to some sort of tty switching loop where sometimes text cursor is shown and sometimes just blank screen. If I want to recover text console control of machine I need to quickly after booting switch to tty1 and stop lightdm. This started happening last week after some upgrades and a reboot. I've tried reinstalling and everything I can think of, but I can't fix it. Meanwhile using sddm I can't log in to Unity 7 or 8, and gdm doesn't - start at all. + start at all. So I'm using sddm + Plasma now but would like to be also + be able to run Unity 7 and Unity 8. I couldn't also use ubuntu-bug since I can't use the browser interface from command line (otherwise it works fine until that point) and it segfaults under Plasma environment while collecting information. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1627502 Title: Black screen, cursor shown, wifi connection popup shown Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: My yakkety installation is now for some reason in shape that lightdm only starts with a black screen, although mouse cursor is shown and movable and "wifi networks available" popup is shown at the top right corner. After some while this disappears and the system goes to some sort of tty switching loop where sometimes text cursor is shown and sometimes just blank screen. If I want to recover text console control of machine I need to quickly after booting switch to tty1 and stop lightdm. This started happening last week after some upgrades and a reboot. I've tried reinstalling and everything I can think of, but I can't fix it. Meanwhile using sddm I can't log in to Unity 7 or 8, and gdm doesn't start at all. So I'm using sddm + Plasma now but would like to be also be able to run Unity 7 and Unity 8. I couldn't also use ubuntu-bug since I can't use the browser interface from command line (otherwise it works fine until that point) and it segfaults under Plasma environment while collecting information. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1627502/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
