Comment 38 for bug 1270656

I fear the problem here might be in reality more than one and we should get them into separate reports to make it simpler to work on them. The symptom and maybe the overall problem might be the same but each graphics type will need to be addressed individually. This report was initially about vmwgfx. @Thomas, just for the records, do you still have any issues?

Sergio, beside opening a new bug to have your specific hardware setup recorded there, have you ever tried to enable the commented out line in /etc/default/grub that enables text mode for the grub menu. Probably for debugging one also wants to comment out the two lines about hidden timeout. This brings up the grub menu on reboot without playing tricks with pressing left shift at the right time (which I never manage). Make sure to run "sudo update-grub" after changing that file.

From slipch it would be important to know whether the nouveau or the nvidia binary gfx driver is in use. But that should be automatically included when filing bugs by running "ubuntu-bug linux". Since there is no GUI up in the problem case this would have to be done after booting with whatever workaround you have. Best after a "bad" boot since then /var/log/syslog should have the info of the previous boot, too.I would also suggest to include the driver in the title line (eg. ... boots to blank console with nouveau).

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