[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1750937] Re: 4.4.0-116 Kernel update on 2/21 breaks Nvidia drivers (on 14.04 and 16.04)

2018-02-24 Thread Matpen
I am facing both the Nvidia problem (cannot login into gnome) and the VirtualBox problem (cannot start VMs). I just tried all instructions found here (reinstalling the kernel, even reinstalling VirtualBox and DKMS modules manually) with both the official gcc and the new gcc-7 from PPA, but no luck.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1714442] [NEW] “Are you sure you want to proceed?” message at login

2017-09-01 Thread Matpen
Public bug reported: Right after logging in to the Ubuntu desktop environment, a message like the one in the attached screenshot appears. I researched the cause and found several links (see [1] and [2] below) pointing to the cause: a command in either .bashrc, .profile or /etc/profile.d outputs to