I just encountered the same problem on another, much older computer on which I had successfully been running Ubuntu 9.04 for about a month. I upgraded to 9.10 but now about 4 times out of 5 I can't log in. When I try, some kind of text appears very quickly (grey on a black background), but is quickly replaced by the graphical "spotlight" login screen.
Incidentally, for some reason I don't understand, I can't get my own advice above (see post #13) to work: there is no such file as /etc/default/grub on this machine. (Why is an install of 9.10 on two different machines so different? This is crazy-making!) Anyway, I managed to get lucky and log in after trying about 5 times. I ended up editing /boot/grub/menu.lst, setting the timeout to 10 seconds and commenting out the part about hiding the boot menu by putting a '#' in front of that line. Now I get the boot menu, but I still can't log in most of the time. It's hard to understand how something this broken could be released. Surely the first two random computers I tried installing on are not both statistical outliers? Is this the best way to report bugs? Does anybody in Ubuntu development really read these? If I'm barking up the wrong tree, I would like to be corrected so I can help make this work. Thanks, Don -- logout without warning shortly after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407488 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
