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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on the new Dell XPS13. I never needed a login, I was just able to boot and my desktop would show up. It doesn't anymore; I can still switch to TTY to get work done.

What did I do? I uninstalled/purged/autoremoved Google Chrome, the laptop then froze. After I cut the power and restarted it was like this.

I did not install Nvidia drivers (I did after it was broken to try and fix my laptop). I have uninstalled Ubuntu desktop using Tasksel, but I do still have a graphical Ubuntu start for a couple of seconds. Very weird.

I've uninstalled nearly everything using tasksel (except the printserver and tomcat - which I can't uninstall aptitude failed 100.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: i did apt-get update to try and fix the aptitude problem, which didn't help.

David Foerster
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You may have updated the Display Driver. Most of the time the driver that you updated caused the problem. Try using the one that came with the ubuntu distro.

Kunal B.
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  • What do you mean? It broke before I even started messing around with the nvidia drivers (they have been removed now) – user3302053 Jun 30 '15 at 23:20
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You can try to delete the graphics driver. Eg : sudo apt-get remove nvidia-*. And try to install new drivers from tty1 using sudo apt-get install nvidia-current or nvidia-common (depends on your system) and reset compiz and unity

Puneet Gill
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