Good morning Tim
Today (Sunday 17 April), I reproduced the boot difficulty and this is what
happened:-
gdm3 did not reach the graphical log in (greeter) - as I reported via launchpad
on 16 April.
The last line of the wall of text was "[ OK ] Started Gnome Display
Manager............and deal with any system changes"
The PC stopped there and after approx 3-4 minutes, I managed to open a terminal
with Ctrl Alt F2 and successfully changed from gdm3 to Lightdm.
Subsequent reboot with Lightdm was OK.
Yesterday, I was unable to fix this via the grub menu Recovery - today I
remembered the Ctrl Alt F2 path to a terminal.
To be honest, I have had so few problems with Ubuntu and Gnome 2 and 3 since
2007 that my repair skills are very rusty.
My hardware is approx 5 years old as follows:-
Intel Q45/Q43 graphicsPentium Dual Core CPU E5400Intel motherboard DQ45EK
Report attached as requested.
I hope it is helpful.
Kind regards
Mark
From: Tim <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, 17 April 2016, 2:07
Subject: [Bug 1571227] Re: Unable to arrive at Desktop using gdm3
Also what GPU are you using?
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Title:
Unable to arrive at Desktop using gdm3
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description:
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial daily build dated 12 April.
I added gnome-shell but still used lightdm to log in.
Lightdm works OK with both gnome-shell and unity.
I changed the greeter to gdm3 (sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm) and the
subsequent log in provided a wall of text and stopped booting.
I could not get to a terminal to reconfigure the greeter and I had to
switch off the PC via the power button.
I was unable to change the log-in greeter using the Ubuntu recovery
system.
Following an internet search, I added an instruction to the grub entry
to allow me to boot directly into a bash command shell to reconfigure
and reboot with lightdm.
Instruction is:- "add the following to the end of the line starting with
/boot/vmlinuz…
–add rw init=/bin/bash"
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