[mdlug] Mybuntu 11.04 -> Mythbuntu 11.11 causes X server to break

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, R KANNAN wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had a working version of Mythbuntu 11.04 on my laptop and I gave in to
> frequent suggestions from it to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.00 this afternoon.
> Friday afternoon is not a good time to update. After installing the
> updates, it restarted and I found that the X server is broke.
>
> I can login to the consoles Alt-F1...Alt-F5 fine but the X server shows a
> blank seen. The Myth backend seems to be running fine and so is Mythweb web
> server (Apache). The file system seems OK but the X-display flashes for a
> few times and there is a blank screen. I have tried..
>
> init 3
> init 5
>
> to restart the X server with the same result.
>
> I see an error message flash by just after grub but I cannot make out
> anything. It switches then to purple splash screen before the flashing
> followed by
>
> I thought the update should not change the configuration files and so
> should work as before.
>
> Any ideas?

    As I always tell my students, take a look at the log files.  X stores 
its log files typically in /var/log/Xorg.0.log


    Good luck,
       --- Jay

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