Ubuntu

GUI failure after updates

Asked by spiderbatdad on 2006-03-29

Have installed Dapper Flight5 on IBM T-30 thinkpad, Radeon 7500 Mobility graphics.

After the install there are some 325 updates imediately available. I assume the updates are necessary. After letting them install and re-booting, my system has a complete gui failure. The login screen looks like a fine toothed rake has been draged across it, totally unrecognizable except for some color. I can type in user info, blindly, and the desktop loads, but again there is nothing recognizable, just striations of color.

I have re-installed Flight5 three times now, since the last installation, I have ignored the update notifier.

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu Edit question

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Solved by:: spiderbatdad

Solved:: 2008-07-19

Last query:: 2008-07-19

Last reply:: 2006-05-16

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Bajtalan Hunor (cerebellum) said on 2006-03-30:

Hello,

Dapper Drake Flight 5 is just a "flight" release, it is for developers, and for people who want to help in developing dapper. Flight 5 means that is is not a stable release, there are so many updates because every day those developers make a lot of packages stable so that is why you see so many updates. If you install them your system can broke of course because everything is unstable yet. That is why your GUI and system can crash.
My advice is to install Breezy which is stable and wait untill the stable release of Dapper Drake so untill June.
If you still want to play with dapper than ask for help/support at irc.freenode.net on #ubuntu+1 channel. This channel is dedicated to Dapper Drake so here you can get help.
Your system could be more stable if you do not update it and ignore the updates.

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Erich Pawlik (erichpawlik) said on 2006-04-02:

I had the same problem. For me (and some other people) the solution has been to switch to a console window and back to the Linux Window. This is going to redraw the screen (<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F8> and then <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F7> did it for me).

In addition, by installing the latest version of Dapper (you need to use the workaround described above) the problem should be fixed (see bug #35463).

By the way: I disagree with the recommendation, to use Breezy rather than Dapper. I switched from Hoary to Dapper after experiencing some problems with Breezy and noticing that older versions of firefox and openoffice have been used).

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Matthew Lange (matthewlange) said on 2006-05-16:

I believe the bug number 36517 reflects the problems you have been experiencing. I have linked this ticket to that bug report.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg-driver-fglrx/+bug/36517