By "disabling" I mean using the "System->Administration->Hardware Drivers" and then specifying "Remove" as the action against Nvidia proprietary driver.
Xorg.0.log.old is a better place to look as it seems that when X crashes and restarts the crash log is remained .old, and the new instance of X writes the (at the time of looking a good) Xorg.0.log file. My reading of the problem described is that everyone has consistently described the behaviour of the login window freezing and re-appearing shortly after. -- pam_unix(gdm:auth): conversation failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516520 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