Comment 15 for bug 609845

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Netbook Edition on two machines seemingly effected by this bug.

I've was experiencing exact symptom described in this bug report for a long time on my ASUS Eeetop 1602, couldn't find anyone else reporting the problem at the time and assumed it was my weird hardware. Was happening almost every boot, I found tapping a few keys on the keyboard during the boot splash would make get it to GDM always, though since this is a touch screen unit, I rarely want to have the keyboard connected, so that kind of sucked. It started happening months back, where as originally I had no problem with Lucid on this machine.

There are no clues in any log files as to what's causing the problem that I could find. Eventually I tried disabling plymouth and it's never happened since.

Only reason I'm here now is because the same symptom just started happening to my ASUS Eeepc 1005P. I don't know why, but the relative 'age' of this machine is about the same now as when it started happening to my Eeetop. Ie. I've owned this unit for about the same length of time as I had owned the Eeetop when this problem started to occur on that. Both machines I bought brand new and installed Ubuntu NBE as soon as they were out of the box.

I hope this comment adds some credibility to this mysterious issue and maybe gives some clues as to why it's happening. I can reenable plymouth and put some logs here if you think it'll help, but as I said I personally could find no clue as to the problem by looking at the logs myself. For now I'm just disabling plymouth as a workaround.