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I upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04. During upgrading, there was an error, but it kept proceeding. The error is roughly about "sa-" something, but I never use SpamAssassin or any mail client so I ignored it. After upgrading and rebooting, it does not show the GNOME login screen, but only a console. I can still log in on the console.

More information:

  • On start there is an error message

    [FAILED] Failed to start Thermal Daemon Service

  • ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log has an error (time omitted)

    ...
(II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
(II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
(II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
   compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 0.0.2
   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
(EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
...

  • pgrep gdm shows that there is a process running: usr/sbin/gdm3

  • startx wait for about a minute before printing

    xauth: timeout in locking authority file ~/.Xauthority

    and giving me a black screen. After a while (about 3 minutes) it gives

    xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable

waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

xinit: server error
xauth: timeout in locking authority file ~/.Xauthority

    then returned 1.

Any suggestions?

Franklin Yu
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  • Since you can still login to the console, do that and re-install the _desktop_. Its appears to be broken. – George Udosen Dec 20 '16 at 21:21
  • @George Thank you. There doesn't seem to be a package called `desktop`, did you mean [`desktop-base`](http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/desktop-base)? APT gives relocation error in `libapt-pkg.so.5.0`, saying some symbol is not defined in `libstdc++.so.6`. (Looks like situation is worse than I thought?) – Franklin Yu Dec 20 '16 at 22:50
  • I am referring to the default desktop that came with you installation, which should be _ubuntu-desktop_ – George Udosen Dec 20 '16 at 23:06
  • @George Oh, so it is [this one](http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ubuntu-desktop). However, I still cannot run APT because of the linking error. Let me search that error online. – Franklin Yu Dec 20 '16 at 23:23
  • in the console run `sudo apt -f install` Less I get you wrong, were you using an Ubuntu gnome or Ubuntu Xenial ? – George Udosen Dec 20 '16 at 23:24
  • @George I found a [duplicate](http://askubuntu.com/questions/805811/upgrade-ubuntu-16-04-1-from-14-04-no-desktop-appears)! – Franklin Yu Dec 20 '16 at 23:25
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/50420/discussion-between-george-and-franklin-yu). – George Udosen Dec 20 '16 at 23:27

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