Pressing Enter causes a crash. This effects me too. It happens:
a) At first login after I press the Enter key. Then there is a crash and
I am back at the login screen. Then after the second login the Enter
works properly.
b) After first login when I avoided to press the Enter and used a mouse
I've discovered that an obscure interaction between plymouth graphical
boot splash and X, when plymouth falls back to text mode, is the cause
of this strange behaviour.
A temporary workaround is to disable plymouth-splash:
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth-splash.conf /etc/init/plymouth-
The workaround works for me.
Thank you.
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Plymouth text-mode splash causes X to crash on first run due to shared tty7
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532047
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This is not an X bug, this is a well understood bug in plymouth that is
in the process of being fixed.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Invalid
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Assignee: TJ (intuitivenipple) = (unassigned)
** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
I can confirm that hitting the 2 key at any time after initial system
boot will crash X. On my system, the Enter key will NOT crash X. So if I
change my password to anything that does not contain the number 2, X
will boot into the Gnome desktop. Ubuntu will work perfectly fine until,
whenever,
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