it happens to me too. I have arch linux, installed just a few days ago, so everything is up to date, and I'm using gtk3 greeter. I got lightdm trough lightdm-bzr package, so it is compiled directly from the development trunk. What's strange is that sometimes it loads right, and sometimes i get a black screen with just the cursor, I have to blindly type the password and press enter. Then my desktop environment loads and everything is ok. The black screen happens very often, about 50% of the time, while for the remaining 50% it displays correctly. What's very strange is that seems to be very random.
I use it on an old laptop, it has an old intel gma900 graphic chip, using xfree86 intel driver. dunno if matters though, xfce and awesome are fine, so I don't think the problem is related to X. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164753 Title: boots to a black screen with a cursor Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After the splash screen on boot, I get taken to a black screen which has an active cursor. I have to switch to tty1 (or another tty) and run the following: sudo service lightdm restart Then I get taken to the lightdm login screen. I'm not sure why it isn't starting properly, happy to help diagnose though. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: lightdm 1.5.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Apr 5 11:25:51 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-26 (343 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-22 (41 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1164753/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp