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Alice_Gabriel
June 5th, 2014, 08:25 PM
Hi,

I just spent a day trying to work around my newly upgraded Ubuntu 14.04 booting into a black screen without success and becoming desparated.


What I did: Upgrade to 14.04 LTS from 13.10 via command line. Everything procceeded without problems.

The status now: GRUB shows. After I select any Ubuntu starting option I still have on my system, the Ubuntu start screen with the dots appears, changes into a black screen with a white cursor in the upper front corner. At this stage nothing will get me out of this besides a manual restart (Alt + F1 or F2 does not work, no keyboard reactions otherwise). This effect also happens with the Ubuntu 13.10 kernel stilled imaged on the system. Graphics failsafe modes won't boot at all.

My system:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7596717/

Thinkpad X1, dualboot with Windows 7. Intel HD 4000 graphics card.
There is no file /etc/X11/xorg/conf.

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga gives:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21f9]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p gives:

No protocol specified
Error: unable to open display

What I tried:
Many suggested solutions from other forum threads, including
Resetting unity, dpkg --reconfigure, several uninstallation and reinstallation of fglrx / nouveau / nvidia graphics drivers

Booting 14.04 from a life USB, which works great and enables me to write this post, but I don't manage to fix my local 14.04 installation :(

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot,
Alice

Alice_Gabriel
June 6th, 2014, 08:53 AM
I decided to fresh install 14.04 from a life USB following this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuReinstallation.
In the test system and in 13.10 usb and all my networks were working out of the box (bluetooth, ethernet, wifi, GSM card).
First thing ater installation I ran into a login-loop problem, due to wrong permissions of the .Xauthority file (see http://askubuntu.com/questions/223501/ubuntu-gets-stuck-in-a-login-loop). Now I have no network adapters and no USB ports at all being recognized.
ifconfig yields:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:21825 (21.8 KB) TX bytes:21825 (21.8 KB)
iwconfig yields:
lo no wireless extensions.
sudo lshw -C network gives:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 96
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0c00000-f0c01fff
In my dual boot Windows 7 all network is working fine.
Could that all be a simple problem with some network config file?