It sounds like you are affected by the race condition seen by SSD users.
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/ubuntu-lightdm-black-screen-when-using.html

Does it show up when you switch to a console and run "sudo service lightm
restart"?

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Ben


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]>wrote:

> Yuck. I screwed up my inline reply - re-sending this a little cleaner.
> Sorry!
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>  On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>  Do you have multiple desktops installed?
>>>
>>
>> Not to my knowledge. I plan to do this at some point, but have not messed
>> with it at all yet.
>>
>>
>>>   If you log out and  then log in for another desktop, does the problem
>>> surface there?
>>>
>>
> I have done this several times and have not seen it happen - once the GUI
> is up, there seem to be no problems - I have only seen this when I
> initially power on the system - and as just indicated, not always.
>
>
>>  The default setting for  Linux is to use the last desktop that you
>>> logged out on.  See if using another desktop solves the problem.
>>>
>>
>> Not entirely sure how to do that. Clue?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>>
> JC
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