Not trying to be rude, but that took two days, and I probably wouldn't have gotten a reply if I hadn't complained about it. I understand the website is made of volunteers, but I have multiple threads open with no answers to them (some have been that way for years).
Let's just say my problem applies to the last bullet under 'What to do if things go wrong' on the page of the link you gave me: no graphical display after the BIOS whatsoever. After a point, my monitor gives me the 'No Signal' message, and goes blank.
I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 12.04 under Gnome shell. When I could boot, it just went to the last environment I logged into (Recovery Shell, Gnome Classic without FX, etc.). Unfortuantely, after trying to fix it myself (as I mentioned above), I don't get a display after the BIOS and dmi pool check. Interestingly, if I wait long enough after turning the computer on, I get the purple shutdown screen if I hold down the power button.
Right now, I'm using a BackTrack 5 LiveDVD to run the box. Here is the log of /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log (since the forum doesn't like .log files):
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[+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.2.1, UID=0 PID=1000
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loaded configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting seat
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting new display for automatic login as user nick
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting local X display
[+0.06s] DEBUG: X server :0 will replace Plymouth
[+0.09s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.09s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+0.09s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.09s] DEBUG: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Launching X Server
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Launching process 1055: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.10s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.18s] DEBUG: Process 1055 exited with return value 1
[+0.18s] DEBUG: X server stopped
[+0.18s] DEBUG: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.18s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+0.18s] DEBUG: Stopping Plymouth, X server failed to start
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Display server stopped
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Stopping display
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Display stopped
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Stopping X local seat, failed to start a display
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Stopping seat
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Seat stopped
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+0.24s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1
Specifically, these two lines:
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[+0.18s] DEBUG: Process 1055 exited with return value 1
[+0.18s] DEBUG: X server stopped
I'm not entirely sure what program that process 1055 refers to, but it does look like that's the problem. Of course, how do I fix it? Using SSH won't work with my setup, but GRUB recovery mode might work. However, I'm not sure what key to press to initiate recovery mode. Suggestions from some sites have done nothing.
Is that clear enough, or do I need to elaborate some more (not being sarcastic)?
By the way, thank you for responding and attempting to help.
EDIT: A Google search tells me that process 1055 is tty6...the default GUI console. So I'm back to square one, because I don't know why it returns with the signal 1 instead of 0.
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