Drat. I was hoping apport would grab the unity logs as well. In that set, unity exits abnormally at the 27s mark (noted by the server regen in Xorg.0.log and the dmesg.txt) but since X is still intact but with nothing to display, it ends up black.
So far all bugs are pointing away from -intel.... ** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1161371 Title: X server sometimes fails to start on MacBook Air 5,2: no screens found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1161371/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs