Exactly the same here. I'm running a clean installation of Ubuntu 12.10 (32bit) on VMWare Player 5.0.1 with Win 7 x64 Host. About 70-80% of the boot-ups, the display-manager starts (I can see the mouse for a few seconds on a black screen) and then crashes (back to the boot-up sequence with a lonley [OK]. Switching to a console in this case and doing a "service lightdm start" (most of the time once only) brings up the GUI. The other 20-30% Ubuntu just boots up without any problems.
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