Thus far, I have nothing but negative things to say about my Vivid Vervet experience.
I tried repeatedly over the last few months to test out Vivid while it was in alpha and beta, by creating a virtual machine and attempting to install it from the ISO images provided by Kubuntu devs. I was never able to install it - the installer always froze or crashed, which was an ominous sign. It left me thinking, This software is just not ready for primetime.
And so it was with much trepidation that I decided to upgrade my spare desktop to Vivid from Utopic. (My production machines are on the Trusty LTS release and will stay on that release.)
This machine is, in some respects, my guinea pig. It's an older desktop without a lot of power - not my daily driver. I keep it on the latest stable release of Kubuntu, and it's about as close to vanilla as it gets. Not a lot of extra packages on it, and uses mostly default settings.
The past half dozen or so upgrades I've run on it have been without incident. But after upgrading to 15.04, I find I cannot login to the GUI. I can get in to the command line and that's it.
When Kubuntu boots, I see the logo, then the screen turns black and I see a line of text which reads "starting version 219". This disappears after a moment and the screen turns black.
Then my screens flashes white. Shortly thereafter a crash window appears, defaulting to the General tab. It says:
This happens every time. Of course, the timestamp changes. Otherwise, the error is the same. Clicking Restart Application brings up a white screen with an X pointer.
What gives? I've already tried updating and upgrading packages. Everything is current. The error persists. This computer has no accessible GUI interface for the time being.
I tried repeatedly over the last few months to test out Vivid while it was in alpha and beta, by creating a virtual machine and attempting to install it from the ISO images provided by Kubuntu devs. I was never able to install it - the installer always froze or crashed, which was an ominous sign. It left me thinking, This software is just not ready for primetime.
And so it was with much trepidation that I decided to upgrade my spare desktop to Vivid from Utopic. (My production machines are on the Trusty LTS release and will stay on that release.)
This machine is, in some respects, my guinea pig. It's an older desktop without a lot of power - not my daily driver. I keep it on the latest stable release of Kubuntu, and it's about as close to vanilla as it gets. Not a lot of extra packages on it, and uses mostly default settings.
The past half dozen or so upgrades I've run on it have been without incident. But after upgrading to 15.04, I find I cannot login to the GUI. I can get in to the command line and that's it.
When Kubuntu boots, I see the logo, then the screen turns black and I see a line of text which reads "starting version 219". This disappears after a moment and the screen turns black.
Then my screens flashes white. Shortly thereafter a crash window appears, defaulting to the General tab. It says:
Code:
We are sorry, sddm-greeter closed unxpectedly. You cannot report this error, because sddm-greeter does not provide a bug reporting address. Details: Executable: sddm-greeter PID: 765 Segmentation fault (11) Time: 4/24/15 20:56:59
What gives? I've already tried updating and upgrading packages. Everything is current. The error persists. This computer has no accessible GUI interface for the time being.
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