I got a similar one! Already described everything here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1343648
In short terms: - I can't login anymore (black screen, non-blinking cursor on the upper left, no access to tty1-6). - I have an intel graphic. - And maybe interesting: My /home is on an nfs drive. But just /home! - And I also updated my Ubuntu from 8.10 to 9.04 and then to 9.10. - The day before this happend the first time (2. Dec 2009), Ubuntu installed that sreadahead and ureadahead packages. So the first restart after that updates (the next day), the problem accoured the first time. Normally I'm using KDE and kdm (but didn't installed Kubuntu, just installed kde using synaptic). So after accessing the PC using ssh and changing from kdm to gdm everything was fine again. Did anybody else also see this behavior (specially that kdm - gdm thing)? Thanks! kolAflash -- init: ureadahead-other main process terminated with status 4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484677 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs