Several users are having similar troubles, but thought it had to do with the nvidia driver: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/532436
I think these bugs may be the same problem and it has nothing to do with the driver at all. I get the impression that init is not giving gdm the proper permissions. -- gdm crash on boot but works with 'sudo gdm' after command line login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581302 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
