10-02-2016, 01:16 AM
I have LinuxLite on an old Asus P5KPRO in the garage. This normally runs XP, but occasionally I boot Linux instead for various reasons. XP is on one HDD, Linux on another. I use grub to choose which system to boot, the default is XP.
The Software Updater said I was still running Ubuntu 14.04 and I stupidly let it update to 16.04 yesterday. All seemed to go well with the update, took about an hour to download and install. But when I try logging in at the lightdm greeter, it hangs. I type in my password, the screen moves up slightly to make room for the "logging in" message and then... nothing. Eventually the screen goes dark as the screensaver kicks in, I suppose.
I can log in to a terminal session with ctrl-alt-F1, and use startx to get to the desktop. I've tried a few things: remove (purge) and re-install lightdm, remove/reinstall Nvidia drivers, chown .Xauthority. Any other suggestions? TIA.
Incidentally, grub now has "*Description Linux 2.8" as the first entry (above XP), and if I try to change this, grub customizer is missing. Trying to reinstall it tells me I have a broken installation. I doubt this has anything to do with the login problem, but I'll have to change the default back to XP eventually.
The Software Updater said I was still running Ubuntu 14.04 and I stupidly let it update to 16.04 yesterday. All seemed to go well with the update, took about an hour to download and install. But when I try logging in at the lightdm greeter, it hangs. I type in my password, the screen moves up slightly to make room for the "logging in" message and then... nothing. Eventually the screen goes dark as the screensaver kicks in, I suppose.
I can log in to a terminal session with ctrl-alt-F1, and use startx to get to the desktop. I've tried a few things: remove (purge) and re-install lightdm, remove/reinstall Nvidia drivers, chown .Xauthority. Any other suggestions? TIA.
Incidentally, grub now has "*Description Linux 2.8" as the first entry (above XP), and if I try to change this, grub customizer is missing. Trying to reinstall it tells me I have a broken installation. I doubt this has anything to do with the login problem, but I'll have to change the default back to XP eventually.