This is still present on Kubuntu Lucid 10.04 and very random, depends on how fast/slow other processes start.
Attaching my logs where you can see KDM sometimes fails and defaults to failsafe. Pls do not bother to report these: (EE) May 04 22:25:21 NVIDIA(1): Unable to find available Display Devices for screen 1. (EE) May 04 22:25:21 NVIDIA(1): No display devices found for this X screen. they are for my secondary screen not attached at that time and totally unrelated to the issue. ** Attachment added: "kdm.log.1" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47867152/kdm.log.1 -- [Karmic] X server starts randomly in failsafe when starting from cold boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459639 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs