USB and Cameras not loading

[Jonners59]

I shall try and find time today and have a go...

Thanks.

QUOTE=1fallen;14197389]At the login screen use {Ctrl+Alt+F3}
Login as you would normally and when returned to the prompt use:

startx

Try and remember anything that might help.[/QUOTE]

[Jonners59]

Thank you. Well, I tried the code startx just after login and it worked fine. A couple of errors flashed by, but it got me in. I then - stupidly - decided that as I was in, I would try and fix things myself. Children should NEVER be allowed to play with such toys. So I went into Synaptic and reinstalled key apps, as this worked for me with something else, similar. So xfce4, Nvidia drivers etc. and I thought it couldn't do any hard. It'll just make sure everything is properly installed. Whilst that was doing its thing, I thought I'd check the drives by opening GParted - "don't think Jon, just do as you are told"!!!! That's when it all went wrong. GParted was taking ages, I suspect finding the drive with the documents. And then the whole thing froze on me.

Needless to say, I had made everything a million times worse.

After some hours of playing, rebooting, trying to install stuff, reinstall stuff and googling I tried to clean the installation that was taking place so did this:

sudo su /var/lib/apt/lists/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend /var/cache/apt/archieves/lock

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
dpkg -configure -a
 apt-get remove gnome-session gnome-shell
 apt-get autoremove  &&  apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

I hoped from all the reading, that would clean stuff up, which it seemed to.

I then did:

sudo chmod 755 /home/me/.Xconfiguration

I did a reboot in to Ubuntu, and all was good. I can now ALSO access the stored files. So almost there.

The issues I have now are that in the Additional Drivers it states the driver installed is "Manually Installed", and the other drivers are not selectable. I can't change them. Lastly, the laptop takes ages to boot up.

At the login screen use {Ctrl+Alt+F3}
Login as you would normally and when returned to the prompt use:

startx

Try and remember anything that might help.

[#&thj^%]

Jonners59, I'm getting very confused now, your thread title "[xubuntu] USB and Cameras not loading"
And one of your last posts show you installed Gnome " apt-get install ubuntu-desktop"

Any who, I remember a year back on "Xubuntu" dealing with a very slow boot as well, I just don't spend a lot of time trying to find that cause.

I keep good back-up's so A clean install and restore of what I need daily and all is well again.

[Jonners59]

Jonners59, I'm getting very confused now, your thread title "[xubuntu] USB and Cameras not loading"
And one of your last posts show you installed Gnome " apt-get install ubuntu-desktop"

Yes, that is correct. The blog WAS about the USB/Camera issue, but if you recall, going down to the 3rd post I said that I had resolved that, finding USBGuard as the culprit. I then added that it seemed that it had left other things not working which I'll need to now sort out, to which you replied with the owenership as probably being the cause. We then went down this new path, rather than a new blog.

Re: USB and Cameras not loading
Thank you. That hit the button. I didn't go through giving access as you showed, but instead just uninstalled Usbguard.

I have now discovered that sone directory permissions have changed too. I tried to tidy up my desktop and update sone files and they won't save or move directory. I.e. from Desktop to a directory in Documents. Never ends! ����"

Jonners59,
Any who, I remember a year back on "Xubuntu" dealing with a very slow boot as well, I just don't spend a lot of time trying to find that cause.

Yes, that's correct, and it never resolved. The boot is still slow, but it got vastly slower. It seems to be going back to the "just slow" now the more I reboot.

Jonners59,
I keep good back-up's so A clean install and restore of what I need daily and all is well again.

Never really found a good backup that worked properly when rebuilding. But that's just me.

[#&thj^%]

Ok now we are all caught up.

Will you run the system-info script found in my signature, and paste back the link it gives you back here it may help us find something out of whack...LOL
I'm going off-line now so I'll check back tomorrow.

[Jonners59]

OK, shall have a go.

As a starter I do get these warnings with

Sudo apt-get update

Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mafoelffen/system-info/ubuntu noble Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
N: Skipping acquisition of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages', as repository 'https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu/dists/noble/InRelease: Signature by key 59DAD276B942642B1BBD0EACA8AA1FAA3F055C03 uses weak algorithm (rsa1024)
W: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/noble/InRelease: Signature by key 3C48D16124B50277AF10D27F32B18A1260D8DA0B uses weak algorithm (rsa1024)
N: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams'
N: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu'
N: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu'

Fingers crossed there'll be something for you to scrutinize when you get back

Report:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Xjw5Y5bPVn/

TTFN

[#&thj^%]

Dual Boot I see.

May have found something here:

 *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: 3D controller
       product: GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: 
           memory:a3000000-a3ffffff 
           memory:90000000-9fffffff 
           memory:a0000000-a1ffffff 
           ioport:5000(size=128) 
           memory:a4000000-a407ffff

No nVidia driver?

And your source list might need some pruning: /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.listd

"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/danielrichter2007-ubuntu-grub-customizer" is one I'd get rid of, but that's your choice.

also this one: "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/minetestdevs-ubuntu-daily-builds-lunar.list.distUpgrade:
File had no entries."
All of these seem worthless currently:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/minetestdevs-ubuntu-stable-lunar.sources:
File had no entries.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list.distUpgrade:
File had no entries.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/iconnor-ubuntu-zoneminder-1_34-jammy.sources.save:
File had no entries.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/danielrichter2007-ubuntu-grub-customizer-kinetic.list.distUpgrade:
File had no entries.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/third-party.sources.save:
File had no entries.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list.distUpgrade:
deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/minetestdevs-ubuntu-stable-lunar.sources.save:
File had no entries.

Your installed packages also show this as installed "grub-customizer" that can cause many problems, search the forums for that.

Now back to your Video driver you have these installed:

nvidia-cg-dev
nvidia-cg-toolkit
nvidia-common
nvidia-dkms-535-open
nvidia-modprobe
nvidia-prime
nvidia-primus-vk-wrapper
nvidia-profiler
nvidia-settings

Will you please show me this:

nvidia-smi

And you are still showing a XFCE4 session, I do see some Gnome packages as well.

You would be much better off trimming back on what you have installed, I'm only suggesting not telling you to do so.


I'm starting to see the possibility of package corruption with UN-nesacary sources.

[Jonners59]

WOW that's a lot. MANY thanks for the feedback.
Yes, I'll want to do all these and your help to clean, tidy up and fix will be extremely grateful of. That said, want to keep Skype and Chrome, and maybe one or two others as I use them from time to time. Some things need Chrome... But the rest - no probs.

Dual Boot I see.

May have found something here:

 *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: 3D controller
       product: GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: 
           memory:a3000000-a3ffffff 
           memory:90000000-9fffffff 
           memory:a0000000-a1ffffff 
           ioport:5000(size=128) 
           memory:a4000000-a407ffff

No nVidia driver?

Now back to your Video driver you have these installed:

nvidia-cg-dev
nvidia-cg-toolkit
nvidia-common
nvidia-dkms-535-open
nvidia-modprobe
nvidia-prime
nvidia-primus-vk-wrapper
nvidia-profiler
nvidia-settings

Will you please show me this:

nvidia-smi

.

So the code for my 1st task seems to show no NVIDIA drivers, yet they WERE installed. MMM Shall I sudo apt-get install them?

nvidia-smi
Command 'nvidia-smi' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470         # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1, or
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server  # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535         # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535-server  # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550         # version 550.90.07-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525         # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525-server  # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550-server  # version 550.90.07-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

I await your command.

[#&thj^%]

First thing on the list is to take care of your driver:
1st)

sudo apt autoremove --purge nvidia*

2nd) Install a good driver for that card of yours:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550 nvidia-dkms-550

3rd) Reboot, now how is your system? Play with it for a small bit of time, say 30 minutes, and then tell me your findings, quirky, studdering, freezes, anything that's not normal behavior.

Then we will work on the rest, small steps at first.

[Jonners59]

First thing on the list is to take care of your driver:
1st)

sudo apt autoremove --purge nvidia*

2nd) Install a good driver for that card of yours:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550 nvidia-dkms-550

3rd) Reboot, now how is your system? Play with it for a small bit of time, say 30 minutes, and then tell me your findings, quirky, studdering, freezes, anything that's not normal behavior.

Then we will work on the rest, small steps at first.

All done. Took ages to download. Seems to work fine.

So next up is what, remove Grub Customizer?