Sorry for the double post elsewhere--I think this is the correct thread to bring this up in:
An update midday Saturday October 13 broke something, giving rise to the "greeter application seems to be crashing" error on boot when X is trying to start, just after (in my case) a brief Nvidia splash screen. Switching to another tty and deleting xorg.conf allows a boot into Gnome, but with only one screen (no restricted-drivers in use). A workaround was found by users kry0_bpr and Plutino at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190310 : Change the "(non-xdmcp)" Greeter= setting from gdmgreeter to gdmlogin in both /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and /etc/alternatives/gdm-config-derivative and all is well again; both screens with nvidia driver. It'll be interesting to see what the next update does--will it fix the problem, and if so, will it put the Greeter= settings back to gdmgreeter, or will we have to re-edit gdm.conf and gdm-config-derivative back manually? -- gdm 2.14.7-0ubuntu1 upgrade forces password on autologin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49940 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
