Today, Ubuntu Linux has decided I don’t get to log in to the desktop.<\/p>\n
I can log in via a command line just fine. Just, you know, no GUI for me today.<\/p>\n
It let me log in a couple of hours ago, but for WHO EVEN KNOWS reasons, I was getting a bunch of XRUNs suddenly, even when I just tried to copy a track internally. (XRUNs are buffer overflows or underflows resulting in lost data.) I think<\/em> that’s because the software updater decided to restart itself after I disabled it. I even uninstalled it from the command line, but I think there are secretly two<\/em> of them, one command-line based and one GUI based, because WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!<\/p>\n So I went through in the GUI and disabled that<\/em> version too (because when it starts, it hits the disk for obvious reasons, and when you’re recording to<\/em> disk, as I was, that’s bad), and while I was at it made Dropbox not autostart anymore since the first thing I always do is turn it off until I actually need it.<\/p>\n Then I ran apt-get update\/apt-get upgrade manually (like I do always) and restarted.<\/p>\n Now, no GUI for me. Oh, it gives me a graphic login, and it looks like it starts<\/eM> to log me in, but then it says “eh, no” and blanks the screen and throws me back to login with a big HA HA FUCK YOU GUESS WHAT YOU GET TO DO TODAY INSTEAD OF WORKING ON MUSIC.<\/p>\n Ubuntu is not<\/em> and will never be<\/em> desktop ready. I know I’ve spent a lot of time talking about using Linux and running Ardour, but you know what? Ardour also ships for the Mac, and I am done with this horseshit<\/em>. I have literally spent more time this last month working on making Ubuntu Linux work again after some new damn explosion than anything I might ever conceivably release, and this isn’t a one-off<\/em>, Ubuntu just fucking So, yeah. My job today is fixing this piece of shit OS again. But my other<\/em> job is: start saving for a studio Mac. This insanity<\/em> simply isn’t worth it.<\/p>\n eta:<\/b> Y’know what? Two hours of failed searching later, this is stupid. I have a system partition image from less than a week ago. Maybe it wasn’t the system patches, maybe it was some other damn thing. I’ll restore the boot partition from that and pray it doesn’t happen when I reapply the security updates.<\/p>\n Hey, I don’t have any better ideas. I lose today regardless, so why not?<\/p>\n eta2:<\/b> Restored previous boot partition, booted up fine, applied the security updates (apt-get update \/ apt-get upgrade), hosed again. It’s definitely the security updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, Ubuntu Linux has decided I don’t get to log in to the desktop. I can log in via a command line just fine. Just, you know, no GUI for me today. It let me log in a couple of hours ago, but for WHO EVEN KNOWS reasons, I was getting a bunch of XRUNs [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}