GDM login screen hangs unless mouse is moved

[Michael Mulqueen]

Binary package hint: gdm

Ubuntu Maverick (10.10 development branch)
gdm 2.30.5-0ubuntu2

When gdm loads, it just displays the purple-y Ubuntu background until I wiggle the mouse, and only then does it display the user selection dialogue. In Lucid, the background would appear and the user selection dialogue would follow almost immediately afterwards, with no mouse stimulation.

Also, but perhaps unrelated, after authentication, the dialogue disappears and it takes absolutely ages to progress from the purple-y Ubuntu background to my logged in desktop (as in my user session doesn't visibly start for ages).

michael@Vanadium:~$ lspci | grep -i graphics
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

All of these things are regressions, everything was really very fast under both Lucid and Karmic.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Michael Mulqueen (michael.mulqueen)]

Hi Sebastien,
I have just raised a bug upstream on Gnome's Bugzilla. I have linked to the bug report in the above "Affects" table.

Regards,
Mike