I also get a blank screen instead of the login screen in a freshly installed 13.10.
You should have ran the "ubuntu-bug lightdm" command to report this problem. Now you need to run apport-collect 1241929" to include the necessary information to this bug report. Any why did you add the tag "no" to this bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241929 Title: Lightdm Ubuntu 13.10 fails to start "intermittently" after cold boot or from shutdown/reboot. Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 13.10 official release. After a clean install of Ubuntu 13.10 I shut down for the night. Upon boot the next morning I found a blank screen with no greeter. I rebooted. This time I saw a wallpaper but no menu's. I did sudo service lightdm restart and it worked. But now after each shutdown or even a reboot I have to manually restart lightdm or might get lucky with lightdm greeter... I have added sleep 2 to the lightdm.conf. Additional info running on a hybrid disc with btrfs /, /home ... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1241929/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
