Regarding the friendly recovery I checked to be sure and that problem existed even in Maverick. I tried booting my stable Maverick recovery mode using both a Natty grub and it's own grub and got the tty rather than GDM.
Give me 24 to 48 hours so I can test Lucid with and w/o proposed updates, and likewise with Maverick. It's not hard for me because I have them all installed, I just have some unrelated issues that must be taken care of. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436936 Title: gdm upstart job checks /proc/cmdline for single user mode, won't start on post-boot runlevel change -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs