Comment 41 for bug 113067

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Manish Singh (mdsingh) wrote : Re: [Bug 113067] Re: gdm hangs before login

Hi, It's a very old problem. I have upgraded the same machine to latest
version of Ubuntu, and I don't see following errors.
Thanks for all your support.

Regards,
Manish Singh

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM, rusivi1 <email address hidden> wrote:

> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? If so, please feel free to mark this bug as new. Thanks!
>
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> gdm hangs before login
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113067
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> Status in “gdm” 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.
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