Ubuntu
lightdm package

  1. Bug #1371651
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 1371651

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James Hunt (jamesodhunt) wrote :

As discussed on irc, the problem seemed to be that the plymouth-ready event was not being emitted since udev was not tagging a graphics device with PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY, so it looked like the problem was udev/kernel related.

According to jibel, if he enters the grub boot menu lightdm will reliably start suggesting that grub is possibly setting up the framebuffer which for some reason is not happening normally.

Looking at the log in #22, we can also see that plymouth itself is crashing (SEGV). This may also suggest a problem with the graphics setup.

I've just tried utopic-desktop-amd64.iso (20140923) under kvm and do not see the issue reported.