(X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 15.04

[xeno74]

I updated ubuntu MATE 15.04 on my AMIGA one X1000 today. Synaptic told me that it want to remove xserver-xorg-video-radeon and xserver-xorg-video-ati. But there are new versions available (xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2 and xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2). Synaptic removed both old packages and Xorg didn't work after that. I selected both new packages and updated them manually. After a restart I had a black screen with a blink cursor. There aren't any error messages in the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log but I found some error messages in the log file /var/log/syslog:

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. Exiting.
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: lightdm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state.
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: lightdm.service failed.
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: lightdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Mar 19 11:45:41 ubuntu lightdm[20218]: initctl: Verbindung zu Upstart nicht möglich: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt
Mar 19 11:45:42 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Session c109 of user lightdm.
Mar 19 11:45:42 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Session c109 of user lightdm.
Mar 19 11:45:42 ubuntu lightdm[20218]: ** (lightdm:20218): WARNING **: Error using VT_WAITACTIVE 7 on /dev/console: No such device or address
Mar 19 11:45:43 ubuntu kernel: lightdm-gtk-gre[20251]: unhandled signal 11 at 00000000 nip 6f4e61c4 lr 6f4e619c code 30001
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[20250]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[20250]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: lightdm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state.
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: lightdm.service failed.
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: lightdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Mar 19 11:45:44 ubuntu lightdm[20381]: initctl: Verbindung zu Upstart nicht möglich: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt
Mar 19 11:45:45 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Session c110 of user lightdm.
Mar 19 11:45:45 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Session c110 of user lightdm.
Mar 19 11:45:45 ubuntu lightdm[20381]: ** (lightdm:20381): WARNING **: Error using VT_WAITACTIVE 7 on /dev/console: No such device or address
Mar 19 11:45:46 ubuntu kernel: lightdm-gtk-gre[20414]: unhandled signal 11 at 00000000 nip 6f4e61c4 lr 6f4e619c code 30001
Mar 19 11:45:46 ubuntu org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[20413]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Mar 19 11:45:46 ubuntu org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[20413]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0)

The temporary solution is to downgrade Xorg:

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sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_1.16.0-1ubuntu1.3_powerpc.deb

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sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon_7.4.0-2ubuntu2_powerpc.deb

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sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-ati_7.4.0-2ubuntu2_powerpc.deb

I created a package with all debs and Mesa libs for the downgrade last week.

Download: Xorg_and_unofficial_Mesa_for_ubuntu_MATE_15.04_AMIGA_one_X1000.tar.gz

I created a bug report on bugs.launchpad today. Link: Bug #1434036 ubuntu MATE 15.04 PPC/Lubuntu 15.04 PPC Xorg: Only black screen with blink cursor after update.

[xeno74]

I tried systemd again today.

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sudo apt-get install systemd-sysv

If you install the package systemd-sysv then Upstart will removed and systemd will installed as a default init system.

With systemd you don't need the rw boot argument but unfortunately the mate-settings-daemon doesn't work (see screenshot).

I had to reinstall Upstart.

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sudo apt-get install upstart

After that, the mate-settings-daemon works without any problems.

[xeno74]

I installed the packages libatk-adaptor and libgail-common because of the error messages in the screenshot above. The error messages are gone but unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem with the mate-settings-daemon.

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sudo apt-get install systemd-sysv libatk-adaptor libgail-common

[xeno74]

D-Bus tests because of the mate-settings-daemon problem

With Upstart

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sudo systemctl status org.mate.settingsd

Failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted

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sudo dbus-monitor --session

signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.0 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
string ":1.0"
method call sender=:1.0 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
string "eavesdrop=true"

With systemd

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sudo systemctl status org.mate.settingsd

org.mate.settingsd.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

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sudo dbus-monitor --session

signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.0 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
string ":1.0"
method call sender=:1.0 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
string "eavesdrop=true"

[xeno74]

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sudo systemctl status org.mate.service

● org.mate.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

[xeno74]

That's incredible. The mate-settings-daemon starts 10 minutes later after the desktop login. It means it works but I have to wait 10 minutes after the login.

[xeno74]

Just for info: Since the last update I can't activate Upstart. I have to use systemd. With systemd, the mate-settings-daemon starts 10 minutes later after the desktop login. It means it works but I have to wait 10 minutes after the login.

[xeno74]

Just for info: Since the last update I can't activate Upstart. I have to use systemd. With systemd, the mate-settings-daemon starts 10 minutes later after the desktop login. It means it works but I have to wait 10 minutes after the login.

I found a way to reactivate Upstart. You can reactivate Upstart with sudo apt-get install upstart-sysv. After that the mate-settings-daemon works without any problems.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I updated my ubuntu MATE PowerPC to version 15.04 beta 2 yesterday.

Beta 2 download for Power Macs: ubuntu-mate-15.04-beta2-desktop-powerpc.iso

Download Ubuntu 15.04 ramdisk image (initrd.gz) for the AMIGA one X1000: initrd-15.04-modified.gz

Note: initrd-15.04-modified.gz currently works for installation only with the latest kernel *release* *candidate* of version 3.19 since it has been modified before the final 3.19 kernel has been released. I suggest to download the initrd-15.04-modified.gz with a right click on the link and then with the menu point "Save target as" or something like this.

Rgds,

Christian

[xeno74]

I created a bug report because of the mate-settings-daemon problem with systemd on bugs.launchpad yesterday. Link: Bug #1437722 ubuntu MATE 15.04: mate-settings-daemon problem with systemd.