In the time elapsed since last post I found I can blindly enter my password into to black tty7 and this triggers the display of the unity desktop.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200359 Title: Double logging a single time (tty1 +tty7) Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I got a dell xps322x installed with latest 13.04 i386-64 and updates which made several times the following behaviour: I made changes that requiered a reboot (clone image to ssd or e.g. unbind Unity-greeter wallpaper from users' personnal desktop one). On boot I got a black screen with a blinking cursor top-left and... an orphan mouse cursor crying where to clic (black screen). So I try switching tty1~6 with Ctrl+Alt+F1~6, back to tty7 still black, so go back to tty1 and type in creds which opens the terminal OK, then switch to tty7 which I find opened !!!! PS: the orphan mouse cursor was visible in all tty ! Don't know howto reproduce, and I can't tell if closing/locking one session does the same to the other. If this happens again I'll check this and report here. Feel free to change the target package. Thanks for Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1200359/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp