On 10/13/2013 09:58 PM, John Meissen wrote: > > At least, so far. > > I've been struggling with one system because I recently upgraded from > 10.04LTS > to 12.04LTS. And so I spent far too much time trying to restore the Gnome > interface. Since then I've been randomly getting "Maximum number of clients > reached" from the X server (a known issue, but apparently not a very high > priority > issue). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1045899
IMHO, nothing beats a clean install when upgrading major versions > Regardless, the only real way to recover is to restart X. Since I was facing > that again anyway yesterday I figured it was a good time to do updates. > > When I rebooted my display wouldn't configure properly. > > I go though a KVM that doesn't pass EDID from the monitor. Because of that I > have an xorg.conf file, with a "PreferredMode" option to explicitly set the > video mode that I need. For some reason, it's ignoring that now. A line in > the > log file says, "'PreferredMode' option ignored" with no explanation. > I haven't seen this issue in years... >>From what I've found online this seems to be an issue with the nVidia driver. >>I > can't say that for sure, all I know is this update broke my system. Now I'm > afraid to do updates on any of my other systems. There have been other issues > since the update - after unblanking the screen this morning compiz locked up > with 100% cpu, and I had to ssh in from another system and kill it. And > certain > menus assocated with specific programs are opening in strange locations. > > I can almost believe Ubuntu sabatoged X to create support for their "Mir" > replacement. Right now I'm really, really unhappy. X11R4 has been around > since > before Linux. It should be one of the most mature programs on the platform. > There's no excuse for this to happen with an update. > Most *buntus suck when upgrading if you have ANY software, especial kernel drivers, not in the original software set. Ubuntu does not know how to deal with the proprietary Nvidia blob since Nvidia stomps on quite a few X.Org files. When you upgrade all or any of the following can occur: 1. Ubuntu restores the original X.Org server files 2. removes nouveau driver from blacklist 3. doesn't update Nvidia and/or recompile new kernel interface properly 4. etc. Ubuntu is notorious for screwing up Nvidia installations. If you want, need to update 1. back up ALL user data 2. remove ALL non Ubuntu software. synaptics/apt-get has a way for you to look at what software is "official" and what is "extra" 3. get nouveau running 4. update 6. reinstall non Ubuntu software. I say, a POX on House Canonical for mangling what could have been a decent user friendly distro. (YMMV, as a Slackware I am not burdened by your issues.) Have Fun Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
