I had the same issue. Turned out to be that the kernel that was actually running was not the same as the one that was being installed and, supposedly, the nvidia driver was compiling against.
Do a 'uname -a' and check to see if you are running what you think you are running (in my case 3.11.0 vs 3.13.0). Also, an 'lsmod | grep nvidia' showed nothing on mine. Installing linux-generic and a reboot solved the issue for me (ie 'sudo apt-get install linux-generic') -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1373968 Title: GUI does not work after update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1373968/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs