wretched thing - I was still editing that. Continued: OpenGL version string 2.1.2 NVIDIA 295.40
and then 10 things answered 'yes'' ending with Unity 3D supported: yes So obviously: 1) Unity does need X 2) X is not starting. I am trying to pick my way through upstart and /etc/init to find out what is supposed to start X. I suppose it is some sort of desktop manager,. A bit of a grep shows that gdm-simple-slave and gdm-binary are both running. That, in turn, led me to /var/log/gdm:0.log , which suggested I delete /tmp/.X1-log That did no good at all, and I am back where I started. After a reboot I got what is in the next screenshot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017377 Title: no GUI after update to 12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1017377/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs