Concluded in Bug #706783 - BIOS SETTING for VGA SHARE MEMORY SIZE was set to 32M. When changed to 64M Ubuntu Desktop Edition booted normally.
Athlon XP on Biostar Mobo M7VIG 400, w/1GB DDR2 RAM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567029 Title: Login failure loop with Ubuntu 10.04 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs