Miracle of miracles... it works now. I tried an update and (for reasons totally unrelated) only 8 packages were updated. Apparently one of them fixed things because now on reboot and cold boot gdm starts of it's own volition.
/me breathes a sigh of relief -- gdm upstart script fails to start gdm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430494 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
