[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1977695] Re: Xorg fails to start: (EE) Error parsing the config file

2022-06-10 Thread Kurt von Laven
That all makes sense. Thank you for carrying the lonely banner during this transition period so that us slow adopters aren't abruptly cast out in the cold. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1977695] Re: Xorg fails to start: (EE) Error parsing the config file

2022-06-09 Thread Kurt von Laven
Reflecting on my original issue from the perspective of a lay user, crashing the windowing system because a custom configuration file couldn't be parsed seems like a bug in its own right. A lay user may understandably react very strongly to seeing a black screen at startup. If they have a more tech

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1977695] Re: Xorg fails to start: (EE) Error parsing the config file

2022-06-09 Thread Kurt von Laven
To clarify, I was defaulted into Wayland (which worked as far as I could tell aside from the broken Night Light) upon upgrade from Ubuntu 21.04 to Ubuntu 22.04, so what was actually hidden from users not comfortable manually editing /etc/gdm3/custom.conf in this case was instead X11. My understandi

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1977695] Re: Black Screen on Boot with X11

2022-06-08 Thread Kurt von Laven
Thank you for your very quick and helpful guidance, Daniel. I will sleep far easier in the future, my eyes now spared from blue light! The contents of prevboot.txt contained the following pertinent excerpt: /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1415]: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1977695] [NEW] Black Screen on Boot with X11

2022-06-05 Thread Kurt von Laven
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release:22.04 xorg: Installed: 1:7.7+23ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:7.7+23ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:7.7+23ubuntu2 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1. Unco