** Attachment added: "Relevant syslog entries" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36594834/syslog.part
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gdm Applied Dec. 7/8 updates (see attached dpkg.log.part) Restarted into Windows. Restarted into Linux. After throb screen (white Ubuntu logo), gdm never loaded, system went into text-mode. Logged in & restarted using `shutdown -hr now`. After throb screen (white Ubuntu logo), gdm never loaded, system went into text-mode. Logged in & was going through logs. Display went black, keyboard was unresponsive - required hard reset. Restarted into recovery mode - no problems after ~20mins. From recovery menu I resumed normal boot - went into text-mode again. I tried a `sudo gdm`, but it gave me some error about :0.22 not having privileges. Restarted into Windows. Restarted into Linux -15 kernel. gdm/login went flawlessly. - Restarted into Linux -16 kernel (newest/defualt). gdm/login went flawlessly. + Restarted into Linux -16 kernel (newest/default). gdm/login went flawlessly. Also attached is the syslog data from the times that the gui would not load. 09:37:44 [ 2.****] entires seem to be relevant... As described, everything seems to be fine now...just very interesting that booting a different kernel & then the default would fix a graphics(?) problem. I am using the radeon driver with a Radeon 9550 (RV350); and, I am using "options radeon modeset=1" via a file under the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Dec 8 11:04:05 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic SourcePackage: gdm Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686 -- gdm failed to start, forced to text-mode, system froze after a few minutes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494087 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
