Comment 35 for bug 113067

As far as I can remember, it was problem with nvidia drivers. 7.10 used to
work fine, but upgrading to 8.04 messed up the entire install.

Sorry, I got fed up and removed ubuntu. Will try again with 9.04 when I get
time.
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> does anybody still get the issue in jaunty and could summarize how to
> trigger the bug?
>
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> gdm hangs before login
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113067
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> Status in “gdm” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gdm
>
> I upgraded to Feisty from a clean Edgy install on an HP Compaq nx9030
> laptop, and when I boot up it now goes through the first stages fine, but
> hangs before login, shortly after the background appears, with a timer wheel
> cursor displaying. Switching to another terminal allows me to log in and
> perform standard command line operations, although not to start X since that
> is already running.
>
> Deleting the /etc/init.d/gdm script caused the system to go straight to the
> command line prompt, and starting X manually from there works fine with full
> desktop functionality (bar features such as user switching which are
> presumably gdm dependent). Copying the gdm script over from another machine
> running Edgy (in case that was the source of the problem) produced the same
> hang as with the original script. Uninstalling and reinstalling the gdm and
> xserver-xorg packages, running dpkg-reconfigure and dpkg --configure -a, and
> switching to an earlier kernel all had no effect.
>