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[Roberto Luiz Debarba <roberto.debarba@xxxxxxxxx>]

This bug affects me.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel 3.13.0-45-generic.

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Title:
  nvidia driver breaks ubuntu irreversibly (uninstalling the package
  doesn't fix it)

Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04
  - sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
  - reboot

  => the whole system becomes completely unusable. When you boot,
  there's no Unity launcher nor Unity's top bar. Only an empty desktop.
  Windows don't have borders nor title bars (apparently compiz crashes
  at startup).

  And the worst thing is that uninstalling nvidia-current (or
  nvidia-304), won't revert the situation.

  The only way I got Unity running again was by purging nvidia* (sudo
  apt-get purge nvidia*) AND manually deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

  So
  1 - either nvidia driver is broken, or sudo apt-get nvidia-current doesn't install it properly
  2 - sudo apt-get remove should completely reverse the installation and it doesn't.

  If you have the unlucky idea to try and install nvidia-current you may
  end up with an unusable and apparently unrecoverable system, which can
  be pretty hard to figure out how to fix.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 14 01:42:19 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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