theDentist
September 10th, 2013, 10:58 AM
Hi all,
I installed the latest updates, the usual way, this morning, this included an updated kernel and I noticed an nVidia graphics driver update. On reboot the system had two faults. My splash screen was black and I had "xubuntu 12.04" text in it. I have never installed any xubuntu stuff on this machine, so where that came from is a mystery. The second major problem is I got only the command prompt. the graphical desktop was broken. So I rebooted into the previous version (recovery mode failed) and managed to get a graphical desktop. Suspecting that driver update was the culprit, I looked at the driver situation. I noticed the currently installed version was an post-release updated 304 driver. So I installed a listed 319 instead. That did the trick and I was then able to boot into a desktop without going into a "previous version" in the grub menu (I presume I'm with the latest kernel). But I am still stuck with the xubuntu splash screen (black backgroung). I have deleted all links to xubuntu splash screen and text in /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth, that where present but made no difference. Any ideas anyone how to fix all this. I have a feeling more of the system was affected then is obvious.
Peter
I installed the latest updates, the usual way, this morning, this included an updated kernel and I noticed an nVidia graphics driver update. On reboot the system had two faults. My splash screen was black and I had "xubuntu 12.04" text in it. I have never installed any xubuntu stuff on this machine, so where that came from is a mystery. The second major problem is I got only the command prompt. the graphical desktop was broken. So I rebooted into the previous version (recovery mode failed) and managed to get a graphical desktop. Suspecting that driver update was the culprit, I looked at the driver situation. I noticed the currently installed version was an post-release updated 304 driver. So I installed a listed 319 instead. That did the trick and I was then able to boot into a desktop without going into a "previous version" in the grub menu (I presume I'm with the latest kernel). But I am still stuck with the xubuntu splash screen (black backgroung). I have deleted all links to xubuntu splash screen and text in /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth, that where present but made no difference. Any ideas anyone how to fix all this. I have a feeling more of the system was affected then is obvious.
Peter