Ubuntu 12.10 reached end-of-life so it's no longer supported. Can you still reproduce this bug on 14.04 (or laters)?
** Changed in: unity Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1159404 Title: System completely inaccessible after suspend/resume if the only enabled screen is no longer available Status in Unity: Incomplete Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Steps to reproduce: - connect an external monitor to a laptop - enable only the external monitor and disable the laptop's builtin monitor, as in: disper -S - suspend - disconnect the external monitor and take your laptop to another place - resume from suspend, ready to resume working happily with all your unsaved data Expected behavior: - on resume, the system should detect that the only screen that was enabled is no longer available, and that the only available screen is the builtin one, so it should enable it. Observed behavior: - the builtin screen is still disabled, so you have no usable screen. Everything is probably there and working, but you can't see anything, so you can't even switch screen back to enable the builtin screen As a workaround I've tried Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access a virtual terninal, and it works, but I don't know of any command that can be executed from the virtual terminal that would force xorg to switch screen. "disper -s" doesn't work if run from the virtual terminal. So the only option you have is to kill Xorg or reboot, loosing in both cases all unsaved data. Unless you can manage your system blindly, and manage to switch screen without seing what you're doing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: unity 6.12.0-0ubuntu0.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,commands,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] Date: Sun Mar 24 13:22:59 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (1005 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-13 (70 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1159404/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp