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[Nathanaël Naeri <1132736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Timo: I don't know exactly for the 14.04.3 LTS -utopic to -vivid HWE
upgrade, but I can confirm this bug is still present for the 14.04.3 LTS
-trusty to -vivid HWE upgrade.

I've just done a fresh install of 14.04.x LTS, using a PXE server so I'm
not exactly sure what the x was in the image I used. On completion of
the install and updates I was left with a 14.04.3 LTS and the original
kernel and X server, i.e. linux-generic and xserver-xorg. I updated them
to linux-generic-lts-vivid and xserver-xorg-lts-vivid. After purging the
old xserver-xorg related packages, the /etc/X11/X link was gone.

I still believe this bug should not be left unfixed, but perhaps that's
just me.

** Summary changed:

- Xorg fails to start after installing the hardware enablement stack on precise due to missing symlink after purging old xserver-xorg
+ Xorg fails to start after installing the Hardware Enablement Stack due to missing symlink after purging old xserver-xorg

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Title:
  Xorg fails to start after installing the Hardware Enablement Stack due
  to missing symlink after purging old xserver-xorg

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in xorg-lts-trusty package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xorg-lts-utopic package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xorg-lts-vivid package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Bug:

  The bug happens whenever the remaining configuration files of the
  original X stack is removed, ie purging. It does not happen for users
  who do not explicitly remove those.

  Workaround:

  For example, if upgraded 14.04 LTS to the 14.04.2 HWE stack
  (=14.10/utopic):

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-lts-utopic

  This restores the symlink /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg

  ---

  After installing the hardware enablement stack on precise by running:
  sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-quantal xserver-xorg-lts-quantal

  Xorg fail to start. There is no error message or anything, just a black screen. Switching to a vt i possible and lightdm/x-0.log shows that a symlink is missing:
  X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.

  I updates two computers running precise x86_64 and both had the
  problem.

  Just recreating the symlink fixes the problem and then precise runs
  perfectly fine with the new stack (in fact, it's more stable so far).

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