Aha. A corrupted splash screen points to a plymouth bug potentially. Not an uncommon issue at all, and plymouth is no stranger to race conditions. Let's see if we can isolate it to that.
Try booting with 'splash' removed from the kernel command line in grub. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692187 Title: desktop fails to appear without enabling failsafe graphics first _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
