Replicated again when upgrading a another 9.10 system to 10.04 w/nvidia-96. Purposely had not set that machine to autologin & the same issue occured. Workaround is basically the same as before by adding a custom.conf file to /etc/gdm to enable autologin:
1. When gdm is looping see if you can get into a console (wait for it to settle after attempting to enter your password the first time (black screen, gdm background, then frozen gdm login display again): Ctrl- Alt-F1 2. Once into the console, login with your username and password. Then cd to the /etc/gdm folder: $ cd /etc/gdm 3. Now create a custom.conf file if you do not alread have one using nano: $ sudo nano custom.conf Enter the following (substituting your regular username in the place of <username>: [daemon] AutomaticLogin=<username> AutomaticLoginEnable=true DefaultSession=gnome TimedLoginEnable=false TimedLogin=<username> TimedLoginDelay=30 Now use Ctrl-o save the file (leave it's name as custom.conf) and then Ctrl-x to exit from nano. Note: you can do the same by using 'sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf' but it may be more convenient to cd into the /etc/gdm folder first so that you can use 'ls' and 'cat custom.conf' etc., later if you wish without having to add the path in the commands. Added Note: if you by chance already have a custom.conf on the system already just change AutomaticLoginEnable=false to AutomaticLoginEnable=true 4. Now, back at the console prompt ($): $ sudo stop gdm $ sudo start gdm That _should _ get you into the desktop. Leave autologin enabled until the bug is fixed. -- login fails with nvidia driver 96 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516520 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
