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Could not write bytes: Broken Pipe 12.04-current

Asked by Galen Thurber

boot up and before login screen
error message displays briefly before X starts
Could not write bytes: Broken Pipe
this causes an unstable session that will crash out of X after awhile
with a flash of a several lines in hex digits before restarting X

memtest is ok
hard disk is fully tested
write permissions are correct in all users directories

I've looked through other reports / questions
nothing matches

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Galen Thurber (godfree2) said : 		#1

system will run Linux Lite & Sparky Linux etc..

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; free -m; apt-cache policy xorg lightdm

Thanks

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Galen Thurber (godfree2) said : 		#3

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
.... 3.2.0-72-generic #107-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 6 14:24:56 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2004 1796 207 0 344 957
-/+ buffers/cache: 494 1509
Swap: 2036 0 2036
xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.6+12ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:7.6+12ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.6+12ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:7.6+12ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
lightdm:
  Installed: 1.2.3-0ubuntu2.5
  Candidate: 1.2.3-0ubuntu2.5
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.3-0ubuntu2.5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.2.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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