I had success with Philip's gdm patch! "kdm[1064]: X server died during startup" and "kdm[1064]: Failed to start X server. Starting failsafe X server." are not to be found in the syslog.
PLEASE refactor this "upstart sprawl." This was a very painful bug for me. As an Intel IGP owner, I wasn't even given a terminal to fall back to. It would be a shame if this bug reared its head again. I have fixed packages queued in my ppa for anyone that doesn't want to build gdm on their own (or wait for the official update). https://launchpad.net/~kachristmas/+archive/ppa -- Since failsafe-x was enabled in karmic it starts if gdm is disabled and kdm is used. (low graphics mode error) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491483 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs