What I eventually did to recover was something like: dpkg -l | grep nvidia
followed by sudo apt-get remove of everything found above. I'm not sure now whether this was the headers dependency issue recurring, or some other nvidia problem. There were some error messages at one point that sugegsted that something was unhappy because my system did not claim to be a "dell" - it's a lenovo T430. At this point my theory for how to keep my system stable is to stay with the generic graphics, and never tough nvidia drivers again ;-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1122373 Title: 107042 might have come back in new form (unity + nvidia -> unusable system) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1122373/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs