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[Christian Zigotzky <1434036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tested the ubuntu MATE 15.04 beta2 PowerPC live DVD in a virtual
QEMU/KVM machine. Xorg starts but unfortunately some colors are wrong on
the ubuntu MATE desktop. I can't use the mate-panel. If I click on the
panel (menu, icons etc) then nothing happens. The mate panel and the
mate taskbar starts again and again. The beta 1 live DVD works without
these problems in a virtual QEMU/KVM machine. On my AMIGA one X1000
PowerPC the beta 2 works very well with the old Xorg packages and
Upstart. The temporary solution for QEMU and Power Macs is, to try to
install ubuntu MATE 15.04 with the Ubuntu Server ISO or with the netboot
CD. The installer runs only in text mode. If you installed it, then you
could install the ubuntu MATE packages and the OpenSSH server. After
that you could downgrade Xorg via SSH.

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Title:
  ubuntu MATE 15.04 PPC/Lubuntu 15.04 PPC Xorg: Only black screen with
  blink cursor after update

Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xserver-xorg-video-ati package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xserver-xorg-video-fbdev package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi All,

  We updated ubuntu MATE 15.04 and Lubuntu 15.04 on our PowerPC
  computers (Power Mac G5 Quad and AMIGA one X1000) last week. Synaptic
  told us 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':

      . 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)

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  I installed Upstart again but unfortunately it didn't solve the
  problem with the black screen and the blink cursor.

  The temporary solution is to downgrade Xorg:

  sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_1.16.0-1ubuntu1.3_powerpc.deb
  sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon_7.4.0-2ubuntu2_powerpc.deb
  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:
  http://www.xenosoft.de/Xorg_and_unofficial_Mesa_for_ubuntu_MATE_15.04_AMIGA_one_X1000.tar.gz

  Further information: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2264322

  PLEASE help us.

  Thanks in advance.

  Cheers,

  Christian

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