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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

12.04 boot after updates but no screen

Asked by Gord Fisch

Studio Ubuntu 12.04.1

Using Nvidia GeForce GTX 550

Has run fine for 6 months

After updates and reboot I see nothing. It boots with no graphics, no text. Loads my printer driver as I hear the printer reloading. Alt F2 gives be a terminal.
I try to 'sudo su -' and the error is "sudo must be setuid root"
/usr/bin/sudo has owner:group gord:gord

I tried booting from a CD, mounted drive and ran
chmod 4755 /mnt/usr/bin/sudo
and rebooted.

No change.

I try startx and the error is
Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

You said after update , maybe a kernel update ?

Try to boot from a previous kernel (previous Linux versions on grub menu).

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Use:

sudo -I

Instead of sudo su.

Did you install the proprietary video driver?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Sorry

sudo -i

Thanks

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Gord Fisch (b-gord) said : 		#4

Yikes! It was a backup script gone bad that chown most of the computer to my account.

After a few hours of chowning (mostly to root:root) I am back in business.
It helped to boot from a disk and
chown root:root /usr/sbin/sudo
chmod 4755 sudo then reboot.

chmod 4755 /usr/bin/Xorg gave my user graphics again

Thanks for looking in,