I have this problem or at least something similar. To put it blunt; gdm does not start.
When I start up the computer I get lock-up, blank screen and no response from the keyboard. After few reboots I usually get the multi-user login, that is. After few seconds of the white logo splash-screen the computer switches to text mode and I get: *Stopping the Firestarter firewall. *Stopping NTP sever ntp *Starting the NTP server ntp and after that the normal CL login. I have tried to start the gdm from the command line, but it does not work. If I try to start it as a normal user I get: ** (gdm-binary:2896): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager: Connection ":1.100" is not allowed to own the service "org.gnome.DisplayManager" due to security policies in the configuration file ** (gdm-binary:2896): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out If I tried to start it as root (sudo gdm) I got: gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.038765 seconds gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.037873 seconds gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.040206 seconds gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.037905 seconds gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.038138 seconds gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.038734 seconds gdm-binary[2798]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for errors But I found that this is due to the /tmp/.X0-lock if I delete it I can run the gdm, buts it behave exactly like it does when I start the machine in a normal way. I have learned, by change, that the only way to get the gdm to start is to login to the multi-user login, delete the /tmp/.X0-lock file, run startx as myself, stop the GUI by login me out using the System -> Log out *user* menu function and then run sudo gdm. I tried to change the "start on" stanza in /etc/init/gdm.conf, Scott mentions above, but it did not help. The output from "cat /proc/cmdline" is: root=UUID=2e38cdfc-ed51-4217-b6bf-968eaeb364af ro quiet splash Any ideas -- gdm does not start after bootup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447226 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
