Graphical desktop not starting from livesession

Bug #1366206 reported by Elfy
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xserver-xorg-video-vesa (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Boot live session - choose Try

Same issue with at least Xubuntu,Ubuntu and Lubuntu

No desktop, black screen - change to vt1 - run loginctl show-seat seat0 gives CanGraphical=no

run startx and desktop boots

this is in a vm on a machine using nvidia card and 331-updates

appears similar to lp:1365336

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: lightdm 1.11.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-13.19-generic 3.16.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.343
Date: Fri Sep 5 21:40:54 2014
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140905.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Elfy (elfy) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1366206

tags: added: iso-testing
Elfy (elfy)
description: updated
Elfy (elfy)
description: updated
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Elfy (elfy) wrote :

Appears to only affect a virtual machine.

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Elfy (elfy) wrote :

Booted usb to hardware and installed - not present there at all.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Elfy (elfy) wrote :
Elfy (elfy)
affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-vesa (Ubuntu)
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Laércio de Sousa (lbssousa) wrote :

Please attach output of command "loginctl seat-status seat0" for each case.

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Elfy (elfy) wrote :

Xubuntu

seat0
 Sessions: *c6 c5 c4 c3 c2 c1
  Devices:
    ├─/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
    │ input:input0 "Power Button"
    ├─/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSLPBN:00/input/input1
    │ input:input1 "Sleep Button"
    ├─/sys/device...01.1/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
    │ block:sr0
    ├─/sys/device...a2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg0
    │ scsi_generic:sg0
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0
    │ sound:card0 "I82801AAICH"
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb1
    │ usb:usb1
    │ └─/sys/device...-1/1-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input5
    │ input:input5 "VirtualBox USB Tablet"
    ├─/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
    │ input:input2 "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    └─/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4
      input:input4 "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"

Ubuntu

seat0
 Sessions: c7 *c6 c5 c4 c3 c2 c1
  Devices:
    ├─/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
    │ input:input0 "Power Button"
    ├─/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSLPBN:00/input/input1
    │ input:input1 "Sleep Button"
    ├─/sys/device...01.1/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
    │ block:sr0
    ├─/sys/device...a2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg0
    │ scsi_generic:sg0
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0
    │ sound:card0 "I82801AAICH"
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb2
    │ usb:usb2
    │ └─/sys/device...-1/2-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input5
    │ input:input5 "VirtualBox USB Tablet"
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb1
    │ usb:usb1
    ├─/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
    │ input:input2 "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    ├─/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4
    │ input:input4 "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"
    └─/sys/devices/virtual/misc/rfkill
      misc:rfkill

Lubuntu

seat0
 Sessions: *c6 c5 c4 c3 c2 c1
  Devices:
    ├─/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0
    │ input:input0 "Power Button"
    ├─/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSLPBN:00/input/input1
    │ input:input1 "Sleep Button"
    ├─/sys/device...01.1/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
    │ block:sr0
    ├─/sys/device...a2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg0
    │ scsi_generic:sg0
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0
    │ sound:card0 "I82801AAICH"
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb2
    │ usb:usb2
    │ └─/sys/device...-1/2-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input5
    │ input:input5 "VirtualBox USB Tablet"
    ├─/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb1
    │ usb:usb1
    ├─/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
    │ input:input2 "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    └─/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4
      input:input4 "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse"

added to lp:1365336 as well

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