12.04 black screen with blinking cursor when switching users
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When switching users on 12.04 it will sometimes just go to a black screen with a cursor. The user switching to is not logged in yet.
Expected behavior:
Click current user up top> from the drop-down click the user wanting to log in > brought to the lightdm log in screen and log that user in
Instead:
Click current user up top> from the dropdown click the user wanting to log in > brought to a black screen with a blinking cursor
From here, you cannot type or initiate any keyboard shortcuts other than Ctrl +Alt+F(1-6) to reach tty1 etc, or Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the user that you were originally trying to switch from. Ctrl+Alt+F8 will bring you back to the black screen.
This happens pretty often so I should be able to test anything needed. Thanks!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 18 08:00:55 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Oh, if you log the current user out instead of switching it will bring you to the log in screen without issue