Public bug reported: This morning when I rebooted my 12.10 system it was essentially unusable. I suspect it was broken by installing updates, using the GUI tool that's part of unity. I believe I have nvidia. I'm pretty sure the update tool has been giving me new kernels regularly; I'm guessing that while i had a functional nvidia driver in my prior kernel, I don't have one in the latest, due to some variant of this bug.
I'd happily attach logs from before rebooting, except the failure mode involved complete inability to get any kind of shell access. I'm now booted from DVD, with a request for help on Unbuntu forums which contains more detail http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2114956 I don't have enoguh information to know for sure that I hit a variant of 106848/107042, but it smells like I did. I would have had the fix mentioned by cjwatson in bug 107042 comment 29, if that really went in on or before Jan 3, 2013. For what it's worth, I recently installed kernel-headers or some variant of it, in an attempt to get a recent version of cprofile to build from source. Perhaps that's a/my source of scrambled dependencies. ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: regression-update -- 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
