I have what seems to be the same issue. When the computer is turned on, the splash screen does not come up; instead it boots as though I had pressed Ctrl-F1 with a Console screen. Then, gdm fails to start, and either leaves me at tty1 of tty7. I have to log into the Console session, and then run "sudo gdm start." After this, gdm works correctly, and I can log on.
I believe this started happening after some kernal updates. I found a solution to this problem at this website: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml This source fixes it so that gdm starts and brings up the login screen. This system is from a standard install with mostly default settings from a live cd, Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. The only non-standard parts of my computer are: AMD 64 bit processor intergrated nvidia video card: geForce 7200 I have done nothing to grub except as outlined in the softpedia.com article, and that after the problem. -- GDM doesn't start at boot time (I need to run it from terminal) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583660 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
