Login screen does not respond

[cyberTrebuchet]

Binary package hint: gdm

Ubuntu 9.10

All packages up-to-date as of 1/20/10

I'm running Ubuntu on a two-ish-year-old Dell which has been running Windows XP. The first two times I booted Ubuntu the login screen was perfectly functional. Today it isn't responding. That's the long and short of the problem, as far as I can tell.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 21 12:53:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, do you get the issue at every boot? Did you change anything to your configuration before getting the issue to start?

[cyberTrebuchet (cybertrebuchet)]

I do. The only changes I made were to add a new user and to edit a few user
privileges.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for your bug report, do you get the issue at every boot? Did
> you change anything to your configuration before getting the issue to
> start?
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
> --
> Login screen does not respond
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510797
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gdm
>
> Ubuntu 9.10
>
> All packages up-to-date as of 1/20/10
>
> I'm running Ubuntu on a two-ish-year-old Dell which has been running
> Windows XP. The first two times I booted Ubuntu the login screen was
> perfectly functional. Today it isn't responding. That's the long and short
> of the problem, as far as I can tell.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Jan 21 12:53:06 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
> SourcePackage: gdm
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
>
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[cyberTrebuchet (cybertrebuchet)]

Update:

The same thing recently happened on my netbook, on which I had also installed Ubuntu via wubi. I've deleted it and started over again using the USB boot. Now Windows is tucked away inside its own tiny partition where it can't harass Ubuntu anymore.