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I just ran apt dist-upgrade. I had ubuntu 14.04. Things went smoothly, but after reboot I can't get past the login screen. I tried both GDM and lightDM, but running startx from the terminal works.

The only strange things I noticed are:

  1. if I try to reinstall the video driver, I get:

    Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xserver-xorg-video-ati : Depends: xorg-video-abi-15
                          Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.14.99.902)
                          Depends: xserver-xorg-video-glamoregl but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    But libcheese is the latest version:

    dpkg -l | grep libcheese
ii  libcheese-gtk23:amd64   3.10.2-0ubuntu2   amd64 
ii  libcheese7:amd64        3.10.2-0ubuntu2   amd64

  2. uname -a gives me 3.19.0-49-generic #55~14.04.1-Ubuntu, while the welcome screen states Ubuntu 14.04.03 LTS. Why 3 and 1 ??

  3. on boot, I get the following errors:

     compaudit:105: command not found: getent
 compdump:135: command not found: mv

    but my PATH seems correct: 

     /home/shitsu/perl5/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

    The same types of errors are present in the .xsession-errors file:

    /usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 24: mktemp: command not found
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 29: : No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 33: cat: command not found
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 34: truncate: command not found
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 29: : No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 33: cat: command not found
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 34: truncate: command not found
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 106: ls: command not found
/usr/sbin/lightdm-session: line 117: exec: gnome-session: not found

    My /etc/environment file is:

    PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"
PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"

Please, any help will be appreciated.

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Ok, silly of me.

The problem was my /etc/environment file. From this thread, I learned that the 2nd line:

PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"

was literally interpreted: the $PATH variable is not expanded (as it usually is in a .bashrc file).

Using startx, I had my session opened, so the PATH set in the .zshrc masked the problem.

But I still haven^t figured out the apt dependencies problem though.

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