You have been subscribed to a public bug: Binary package hint: gdm
Applied Dec. 7/8 updates (see attached dpkg.log.part) Restarted into Windows. Restarted into Linux. After throb screen (white Ubuntu logo), gdm never loaded, system went into text-mode. Logged in & restarted using `shutdown -hr now`. After throb screen (white Ubuntu logo), gdm never loaded, system went into text-mode. Logged in & was going through logs. Display went black, keyboard was unresponsive - required hard reset. Restarted into recovery mode - no problems after ~20mins. >From recovery menu I resumed normal boot - went into text-mode again. I tried a `sudo gdm`, but it gave me some error about :0.22 not having privileges. Restarted into Windows. Restarted into Linux -15 kernel. gdm/login went flawlessly. Restarted into Linux -16 kernel (newest/default). gdm/login went flawlessly. Also attached is the syslog data from the times that the gui would not load. 09:37:44 [ 2.****] entires seem to be relevant... As described, everything seems to be fine now...just very interesting that booting a different kernel & then the default would fix a graphics(?) problem. I am using the radeon driver with a Radeon 9550 (RV350); and, I am using "options radeon modeset=1" via a file under the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Dec 8 11:04:05 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic SourcePackage: gdm Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686 ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- gdm failed to start, forced to text-mode, system froze after a few minutes https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/494087 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati 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