After more talking in #ubuntu+1 it was recommended that I remove Plymouth and see what happens... So I removed plymouth and sure enough, the system now correctly boots. I'm not sure what the significance is and if it is Plymouth's interaction with gdm, Xorg or the intel drivers that is causing this to happen, but it does appear that it is plymouth causing this issue and not the drivers in and of themselves. I don't know how you guys what to handle this bug, but for me, it seems pretty clear what the cause is and also what the solution is.
-- gdm/x fails to start with error "Broken Pipe" at boot in Xubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519641 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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