This happened to me simply by upgrading from Precise LTS to Trusty LTS on two independent machines and then purging residual config of left- over packages from Precise.
Reinstalling/reconfiguring xserver-xorg-lts-trusty fixed the problem. This bug is high impact and hard to debug for an average user, though. What about hacking the postrm scripts of conflicting packages to check whether a package that holds on to /etc/X11/X is still installed and fixing the issue there? Not a beautiful solution but better than leaving users without X after an upgrade... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-lts-quantal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132736 Title: Xorg fails to start after installing the hardware enablement stack on precise due to missing symlink after purging old xserver-xorg To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-lts-quantal/+bug/1132736/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
