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(Get the code!)
I think I saw this, too.
In my case, I could see the beige background and the circular timer mouse cursor spinning indefinitely. I went to a text console and ran top. I saw that gdmgreeter was monopolizing the CPU. I editied gdm.conf and switched to gdmlogin, restarted gdm and all was well (though gdmgreeter probably shouldn't be spinning like this).
I didn't find anything apparently relevant in the gdm log, syslog, or Xorg.0.log.
I reboot fairly often on my dual boot laptop. I have all the latest updates as of april 1, I use the nvidia binary driver, and have a T61p laptop with a Quadro FX 570M video chip.