I just upgraded to 12.10 with my Lenovo T400 and I had to start lightdm manually to boot to Unity. Since this Laptop uses an HD3xxx ATI Card, I don't know if this is fglrx related.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1054136 Title: Quantal Beta 1 fresh install : No lightdm graphical login Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After a fresh install of Quantal Beta 1, I notice the following behaviour on a machine with ATI RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] : - Booting in black : no plymouth graphical, nor text. - A "graphical" mouse cursor shortly shows up, then disappears / the system then sits there on a "text" screen showing a couple diag lines corresponding to the boot process (but unrelated to login or X or lightdm... probably just some of the latest boot text messages, i.e."ACPI Battery blah-blah..") - [Alt]-[Ctrl]-[F1] brings a text console with proper login capability # sudo lightdm start ... starts lightdm and GUI properly, allowing graphical boot into Unity ....Next reboot gives the same absence of "spontaneous" lightdm startup... => Applying all latest updates as of 2012/09/21 brings no improvement on this respect. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: lightdm 1.3.3-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 21 17:16:54 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1054136/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
