I recently installed ubuntu studio 14.4/trusty and though the installation seemd to go well and the system had been working fine, yesterday when I ran the gui "Software Updater" and did a restart when the updates were done (as it wanted me to do) the computer went through a welcome screen that says "Ubuntu Studio for creative humans etc," then to a log in where I entered my password, then to a blank screen. The first time that blank screen had (I'm quite certain) my desktopp image, but the boot process stopped there. The next times I tried to boot it got to almost the same stage, but never to the desktop image, instead there was only a blank white screen (I don't know if it's significant but rather than pure white it was white with what looked like many single pixels of a darker color, as if the screen were dirty). Normally the next thing presented would be a dialog offering that I could select a session, but it would get stuck before that. In its stuck state the mouse still worked, with a mouse pointer image moving around on the screen. I could also do ctl-alt-Fn and get to a console, but to be honest I didn't know what to do from there.
For unusual reasons I happen to have a backup of the root partition made with fsarchiver just before I had tried running the "Software Updater" and with this I could last night restore the partition to the state it was in just before the system was hosed. If it would be helpful in debugging this issue I could for example run "Software Updater" again and then mount the presumably hosed system from a copy of Quantal I have on an external drive, then copy and upload somehow the apt and dpkg logs (and/or others). I don't know if it's possible for you to contact me (I'm new to launcpad) but assuming it is, then please let me know if you'd like me to do this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283826 Title: lightdm hangs after updates To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/1283826/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
