After upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04 64bit sometimes gdm doesn't start

[Paolo Brandoli]

Binary package hint: gdm

Sometimes (more or less once every 3 boots, but sometimes keeps happening for few times in a row) the GDM service doesn't start and Ubuntu displays the text mode login prompt.
When this happens the splash screen doesn't appears, but if I press CTRL+ALT+DELETE then the splash screen that indicates the shutdown appears.

When the text mode login prompt appears I can login and I can launch GDM with "sudo service gdm start", and the service starts normally and the graphic login screen is shown.

The problem is new to 10.04 since with 9.10 the gdm service started correctly every time.

[Paolo Brandoli (paolo-brandoli)]

daemon.log

May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: <info> starting...
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop avahi-daemon[833]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 110) and group 'avahi' (GID 121).
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop avahi-daemon[833]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop avahi-daemon[833]: avahi-daemon 0.6.25 starting up.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the modem-manager...
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop avahi-daemon[833]: Successfully called chroot().
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop avahi-daemon[833]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0)
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0): no ifupdown configuration found.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin ZTE
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop avahi-daemon[833]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop gdm-binary[828]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop init: apport pre-start process (920) terminated with status 1
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo)
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Sierra
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Ericsson MBM
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Longcheer
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Gobi
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Novatel
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Huawei
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Option
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Nokia
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin AnyData
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin MotoC
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Generic
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop modem-manager: Loaded plugin Option High-Speed
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
May 30 17:29:48 paolo-desktop acpid: starti...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, to debug by somebody having the issue, could be a plymouth or xorg bug

[quequotion (quequotion)]

This looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/581302 but I don't want to mark it because I'm afraid that will force it to expire early. This bug has not been resolved.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Paolo Brandoli (paolo-brandoli)]

The bug seems gone in 11.04, but I have changed the graphic driver from
NOUVEAU to the NVidia blob.
I think I didn't change the default driver after installing 10.04

I will download 11.10 alpha and try the live cd (I cannot do a full install
because it would cause an huge disruption)

Paolo

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be
> reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the
> development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you
> could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next
> release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release
> at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your
> help.
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> After upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04 64bit sometimes gdm doesn't start
>
> Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gdm
>
> Sometimes (more or less once every 3 boots, but sometimes keeps happening
> for few times in a row) the GDM service doesn't start and Ubuntu displays
> the text mode login prompt.
> When this happens the splash screen doesn't appears, but if I press
> CTRL+ALT+DELETE then the splash screen that indicates the shutdown appears.
>
> When the text mode login prompt appears I can login and I can launch
> GDM with "sudo service gdm start", and the service starts normally and
> the graphic login screen is shown.
>
> The problem is new to 10.04 since with 9.10 the gdm service started
> correctly every time.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/587607/+subscriptions
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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