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wacom-tools package

After some day of installation, Xorg won't start anymore (black screen and locked keyboard)

Bug #364488 reported by Vincenzo Ciancia
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Bug Description

I was testing jaunty. At some point I did an upgrade and X stopped working in the following way: black screen on boot, the system clearly logging in (automatically) and then some random coloured vertical lines appeared on the screen. Hard reboot was needed.

I reinstalled hardy from the daily live of april 20th. It worked (I am now typing from the live usb). After a reboot it went back to the same symptoms again, which include keyboard locked so X is completely gone. The point is that both the live system and the installed system have the *same* version of the drivers and server, that is xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18.

Tags: jaunty
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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :

Thinking about it, it might be related to console switch, in fact my session loads "behind the black screen" and if I press the power button it reboots after 60 secs. At that point I see a garbled screen which should be the console, judging from the number of text-mode-cursor-looking blinking white lines on the screen. So the console is gone too.

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :
affects: ubuntu → xorg (Ubuntu)
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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Please run 'apport-collect 364488'.

affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → wacom-tools (Ubuntu)
Changed in wacom-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote :

I assume you meant "jaunty" and not "hardy" right?

affects: wacom-tools (Ubuntu) → xorg (Ubuntu)
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Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote :

Timo suspects this is a dup of a previously known bug in wacom-tools. Let's see what the apport-collect returns.

affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → wacom-tools (Ubuntu)
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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :

Yes I meant jaunty and yes it works now that I removed the wacom entries. Thank you, this fixed my problem, and the wacom tablet is working well indeed. What's the other bug so that we mark this as a duplicate?

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: jaunty
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

[From reporter's comment it sounds like this is now fixed. If not, please reopen with clarification.]

Changed in wacom-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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