Boot hangs at splashscreen, KDM doesn't show up

[Jan Schnackenberg]

This bug behaves similar to #538524 but happens with the released version.

After the upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 everything was ok at first. But after a few reboots the system did not come past the splash screen anymore.

[ctrl]-[alt]-[F1] doesn't do anything. [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] starts the shutdown and the system reboots, hanging at the same stage.

Removing the "quiet splash" parameters before booting lets the system start.

I'm not really sure on what to do to diagnose this further.

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

[Andreas Raster (rakete)]

I have the same problem, every few boots kdm won't show up and I can do nothing else but reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del. Most of the time the problem goes away after rebooting repeatedly a few times.

[Jan Schnackenberg (yehaa)]

I have no idea when it was fixed. Neither do I know what fixed it. But today I just tried booting with "quiet splash" switches. And it worked.

I hope this is not just "by chance".

[Andreas Raster (rakete)]

I think it might have been fixed by the update that also fixed the issue the splash screen had with the non-free nvidia/ati drivers. At least I am not seeing this problem since I installed that update. So I think you can close this bug Jan.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

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[Leo Arias (elopio)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.