

I don’t have experience with Nvidia graphics but I found some people mentioning additional steps for system with Nvidia graphics card. Fixing Unity freeze issue with Nvidia graphics: After the reboot, you should have Unity working as normal. The last command will reboot your system. Sudo apt-get install -reinstall ubuntu-desktop After you enter your username and password, use the following commands one by one to reinstall Unity desktop. You will be asked to enter your credentials.

This will take you to command line interface (instead of the default graphical user interface). Well, since you are stuck with a frozen system, use Ctrl+Alt+F2 key. Let’s see how to do that: Reinstall Unity in Ubuntu 14.04 to fix system freeze issue This problem of missing Unity launcher, panel and system freeze can be solved by re-installing Unity. Basically you will have Ubuntu in an unusable state.

You boot in to Ubuntu 14.04, enter your credential and the system just hangs up, freezes. If you are lucky, you might see mouse cursor, background wallpaper but nothing else. Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter.If you upgraded Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04, you might end up with Unity freezing at login time. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source.

Please note that storing unencrypted passwords is also considered a security risk. Make sure only you can read the ~/.wgetrc file: Of course, you can configure separate FTP and HTTP credentials as follows too: $ cat ~/.wgetrc ftp_user=vivekftp The syntax is as follows to store login credentials: $ cat ~/.wgetrc user=vivek $ wget -user=vivek -ask-password How do I read username and password from a file? Cannot be specified when -password is being used, because they are mutually exclusive: Pass the -ask-password option to pompt for a password for each connection established. The passwords on the command line are visible using ps command. Fig.01: wget command in action with HTTP auth.
