gdm fails to start on boot

[bbordwell]

Binary package hint: gdm

On boot I am left with a cursor and my background image after the plymouth boot screen goes away, desktop icons and the bars on top+bottom never come up.

I tried alt+sysreq+k and it reset back to the login screen, i logged in and was left with the same thing.

This is only on a fully updated system, my apport information is from a daily cd from about 2 weeks ago.

I have a feeling this may be related to a bug 542437, i filed it shortly before i restarted my system, which as of the beta freeze was working fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 20 02:57:44 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100313.1)
Package: gdm 2.29.92-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

I looked at the IRC logs from tonight (actualy early this morining) and found some discussion about this, found there was already a bug report. So I am marking it as a duplicate.