crash while using PyCharm / Python3

[Adam]

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Adam wrote:
>> "Adam" <adam at no_thanks.com> wrote in message
>> news:ncprqb$tl9$1 at news.albasani.net...
>>>
>>> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art at gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ncpjj0$7ug$1 at dont-email.me...
>>>> Adam wrote:
>>>>> There ought to be a way to just reinstall the graphics subsystem 
>>>>> rather
>>>>> than
>>>>> an all-or-none installation approach.
>>>>
>>>> Yes you can. Did it for a borked install of the nVidia driver. 
>>>> reference
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/VideoDriverDetection#Problem:_Need_to_purge_-fglrx>
>>>
>>> Thanks, even after doing the following...
>>>
>>> Problem: Need to purge -fglrx
>>>
>>> Typically, the following manual commands will properly uninstall -fglrx:
>>>
>>>   $ sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
>>>   $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
>>> xserver-xorg-core
>>>   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>>>
>>> I still get that dreaded "The system is running in low-graphics mode"
>>> error.
>>> And, recovery mode failsafeX and Ctrl+Alt+F1 hangs with the following...
>>>
>>>     <more of the same>
>>> Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>>> Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
>>> Initializing built-in extension RECORD
>>> Initializing built-in extension DPMS
>>> Initializing built-in extension Present
>>> Initializing built-in extension DRI3
>>> Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
>>> Initializing built-in extension XVideo
>>> Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
>>> Initializing built-in extension SELinux
>>> Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
>>> Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
>>> Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
>>> Initializing built-in extension DRI2
>>> Loading extension GLX
>>> <hangs here>
>>>
>>
>> After trying the following...
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/577093/how-to-install-gnome-desktop
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> $ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
>>
>>
>> http://tipsonubuntu.com/2014/06/06/change-display-manager-ubuntu-14-04/
>>
>> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
>
> Not sure about ATI, but when you purge the nVidia driver it takes Unity 
> with it so I had to reinstall unity-desktop afterwards. If you want 
> lightdm but are now using gdm, maybe it happened because unity-desktop was 
> uninstalled and you just installed gnome-shell, your can reset:
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
>
> and select lightdm from the list.
>

Thanks, but why fix if it ain't broke?    :-)


>
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>
> Jonathan
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