[04:33] <alex57>  I updated from a fine working 12.04 LTS to 12.10 on an old computer and now I can only boot in recovery mode, startx fails. If I try to boot normally I end up with a screen that changes between black, purple and light purple. What can I do to get the GUI back ?
[04:34] <Unit193> You can try and see if nomodeset helps.
[04:34] <Unit193> !nomodeset
[04:37] <alex57> from a command prompt, how would I check nomodeset ?
[04:38] <holstein> alex57: you would do it from boot, as the guide suggests.. from grub
[04:41] <alex57> now the tricky part is how to get to the grub menu...
[04:43] <holstein> alex57: tap shift at boot, and you should be able to enter it there
[04:43] <holstein> i usually try it from a live CD, but im a "look before you leap" kind of guy.. and i *never* do distibution upgrades, except to test the path
[04:44] <alex57> i can briefly see some grub stuff but it soon changes into the list of bootable OSes on the system
[04:46] <holstein> alex57: you can manually edit that if needed via a live CD
[04:46] <holstein> alex57: you should be albe to tap shift, and see the grub menu, that allows you to follow above..
[04:46] <alex57> okay I just noticed the 'c' option in the list of OSes, and now I am at the grub prompt
[04:50] <alex57> the 'e' option lets me edit an entry. SO shall I add nomodeset ?
[04:50] <holstein> alex57: i would read above, and enter the options exactly as stated.. i do it via live CD, so i dont know them off the top of my head, though, if you need me to look at  the link Unit193 gave you, i can
[04:52] <Unit193> e is it, find "nosplash" and it should go around there. Ctrl+x boots, IIRC.
[04:55] <alex57> I will try from a live CD as well...
[05:02] <alex57> holstein: if I do it from a live CD the setting would apply only to the liveCD session, right ?
[05:12] <alex57> I edited the grub entry for Ubuntu 12.10, inserted a new line with just 'nomodeset' rebooted, but the GUI wouldn't start up. Upon rebooting again, the line that I added was missing...
[05:37] <Unit193> Yes, you are editing the boot options one time, if you reboot rather than boot from there, nogo.
[05:47] <alex57> If that's the case, adding nomodeset didn't seem to help. In the meantime I located my grub configuration file, according to http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/07/how-to-find-where-grub-is-installed-in-ubuntu/ and added nomodeset after quiet, however I still have the same problem: after rebooting and seeing briefly a Lubuntu 12.10 light blue screen, it starts cycling a black screen, then purple, then light purple, forever...
[06:07] <alex57> How can I check if any driver is missing ?
[07:54] <alex57> I am still unable to boot into a desktop manager
[11:46] <iccthedral> I'm having problems with the 13.04 lubuntu on two of my machines. I've installed it from Live-USB and it all goes fine, I'm in my shell, feeling comfortable, aptgetting emacs but it stops with the message that I have unmet dependencies.
[11:47] <iccthedral> Normally, I tried apt-get install -f, doesn't work.
[11:47] <iccthedral> Then I tried many weird solutions that I stumbled on the web, nothing helped at all.
[11:47] <iccthedral> Is anyone having similar problems?
[15:44] <n-iCe> hi
[15:54] <malaphus> Anyone know where 13.04 keeps the lightdm theme XML?  12.10, I believe, was in /usr/share/lightdm-gtk-greeter/greeter.ui but 13.04 doesn't seem to have that
[18:11] <Unit193> malaphus: That file doesn't exist in lubuntu-artwork-13.04 for lightdm, only lxdm.  lightdm-gtk-greeter also doesn't have it, and locate didn't find anything with lightdm or greeter in the name other than the LXDM one.
[19:17] <ajnr> Hi I am not able to resize the launcher icon size after upgrading my system from 12.04 LTS to 12.10. Any one plz let me know how to do? I would like to know also that, What is the most important things I have to do after upgrading , as initially I was not able to get the unity desktop, only mouse pointer it shows. but after I install unity, it shows the desktop icon.
[19:19] <Unit193> ajnr: Please don't cross post, and this isn't really the channel for Unity.
[22:09] <malaphus> Unit193: yeah, i discovered the same, trying to figure out how to re-theme lightdm on 13.04 heh
[22:10] <malaphus> can disable the language selector via the conf file in etc, id like to do some more advanced customizations though
[22:13] <Unit193> theme-name=Name > /usr/share/themes/Name/gtk-3.0/apps/lightdm-gtk-greeter.css
[22:58] <Rarrikins> What package do I need so that lxappearance will have a Window Border tab?
[22:59] <Rarrikins> Never mind. Found it (lxappearance-obconf).
[23:00] <Unit193> Yep, Openbox. :D
[23:34] <Rarrikins> How do I add Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend, and Hibernate to the lubuntu-logout application?
[23:42] <laperriere> any lubuntu experts out there?
[23:56] <Rarrikins> Never mind. Apparently installing policykit-1 fixes it.