As a temporary workaround, until the bug gets fixed, I may suggest that disabling usplash (by removing "splash" from the kernel line in the grub menu) saves the day and allows the system to boot into the kdm greeting screen.
-- edgy eft usplash does not switch to kdm https://launchpad.net/bugs/63541 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
