Barry Warsaw <barry <at> ubuntu.com> writes: > > On Jul 26, 2011, at 04:43 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > >I just updated my laptop VM and now the boot hangs. Here's the status from > >Landscape about what got updated. Note that this is an Oneiric machine > >that's been working for quite a while. It's gotta be one of the packages in > >this list, because the previous update I did via Landscape also required me > >to > >reboot and that worked out just fine. > > > >The last thing I see is "Checking battery state... [OK]" > > > >Any thoughts? Anybody else seeing boots hang now with an up-to-date Oneiric? > > Seb helped out in #ubuntu-devel. Apparently I was a little to eager for > update/reboot. If you hit this problem, switch to a vt and apt-get install > lightdm-gtk-greeter. > > -Barry >
Installing lightdm-gtk-greeter works, but I also found that the problem was that unity-greeter wasn’t installed. I think the problem was that unity-greeter was being called by the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file but since it wasn’t installed, it was just stalling. Anyway, by doing a: sudo apt-get install unity-greeter it fixed the situation and the machine boots. I also have the lightdm-gtk-greeter installed, but it isn’t being used. I am not sure why the unity-greeter wasn’t installed. My upgrade failed and I had to restart it, but for some reason, starting the upgrade over didn’t solve the problem. I wonder if maybe the upgrade installer didn’t like my hardware or something. To check to see if your unity-greeter is installed, run the following command: dpkg --get-selections | grep unity-greeter -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel