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Good day,

I see there are various questions about the same topic but it looks like the cause are somewhat different. I tried tor resolve my problem by looking and trying some of the solutions but without any success so far. I suspect my problems come in with the graphics drivers as I made a change to the resolution and then for some reason I could not reset the resolution to the original values. I therefore installed the latest nvidia drivers by using the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates    
sudo apt-get update    
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

but I think I made a mistake by then also installing this afterwards:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

I rebooted and now I get this error: 

Could not write bytes: broken pipe

Assistance will be highly appreciated

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Error: could not write bytes: Broken pipe

In case you cant see it:

  1. CTRL-ALT-F1 (to get a CLI)
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
  4. sudo apt-get install invida-current-updates

and just in case:

sudo rm .Xauthority

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  • No, I have done all these steps but I still get the same error
    – Marius
    Apr 11, 2014 at 22:25
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I faced the same error message (in 12.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500) immediately during the boot process and could not get through to any login screen. I had caused this behaviour before by manually modifying the xorg.conf file with a line that should do something desired. (Silly me! :-()

To reverse the entry I booted from another partition, mounted my dysfunct old root partition and changed the xorg.conf back again.

After that my familiar root partition returned like a charm. :-)

Cheers, Petra

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