I encountered this bug when upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10. I read all the comments from this issue and the accompanying issue mentioned previously, then I resolved this issue by doing the following actions (in this order):
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm sudo apt-get purge gdm sudo rm /var/var/dbus/pid su root created directories /run and /run/lock (these already existed) moved contents of /var/run into /run and /var/lock into /run/lock, delete directories /var/run and /var/lock create replacement simlinks; e.g. 'ln -s /run /var/run' and 'ln -s /run/lock /var/lock' reboot I rebooted twice just to be sure since I went through part of this process once, resolved it, then the problem reappeared after reboot. The problem only stayed resolved after doing ALL of the above steps. Had I been an uneducated user (not a techie) I would have been really angry. Ubuntu community needs to upgrade the OS soon to fix this. This is a huge issue since the machine UI was unusable until this fix was in place! -- 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/856810 Title: Boot hangs at "Booting system without full network configuration..." Status in Linaro Ubuntu Evaluation Builds: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I installed Ubuntu 11.10 beta1 64bit on a new laptop. I rebooted and it came up nicely. After that I did "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get the most recent fixes and installed some additional software. Now I do not seem to be able to boot. Fist I see: Waiting for network configuration... Then I see: Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration... And then it just hangs forever displaying the following: Booting system without full network configuration... Nothing happens after that, no matter how long I wait. However, I can switch to the console with CTRL-ALT-F1 and log in from there. The network is configured with DHCP and it works just fine from the console. I do not understand what the GUI boot display is waiting for. I installed the system using the alternate install CD to get LVM based partitions with full disk encryption. I noticed the bug #847782 and removed the "auto eth0" entry from my /etc/network/interfaces. Unfortunately that did not change anything, it still hangs forever. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bug/856810/+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
