Ladies and gentlemen here comes the solution: I realized by connecting to the machine via ssh that actually everything is running, ie. GDM, X, Pulse, whatever you just don't get to see anything which is due to a completely out of range resolution of horizontal 268kHz, vertical 281Hz. I have now completely emptied /etc/X11/xorg.conf and voila, it works!
just as if nothing happened, all TTYs are back online, graphics are just fine, no "init: gdm main process ended, respawning" error messages anymore! Your's, firebug -- upstart job keeps restarting a dying gdm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441638 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
