This happens around once every two or three boots. Running Ubuntu 13.10 on a Lenovo T420 laptop.
-- 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/1092858 Title: Boot hangs at login screen Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Boot hangs at login screen. Cannot type any password. Drop down menu for shutdown not available. Only exit possible is to press the PC power button for 5 seconds to do a hardware shutdown. The problem is intermittent and not reproducible. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: unity-greeter 0.2.8-0ubuntu1.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-34.53-generic-pae 3.2.33 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-34-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Dec 21 05:47:15 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity-greeter UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1092858/+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

