Please disregard my post #17: the problem came back. Apparently I
fooled myself with 2 random successful logins in a row. It does NOT
matter which kernel version I boot with; I almost always get logged out
as soon as I log in.
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logout without warning shortly after login
https://bugs.launchpad
I found a workaround for the problem on my second machine: after getting
the boot menu to show up, I found that booting to the prior kernel
version instead of the current kernel version makes everything work
fine. In other words, instead of booting the default:
Ubuntu 9.10, 2.6.31-16-generic
I just encountered the same problem on another, much older computer on
which I had successfully been running Ubuntu 9.04 for about a month. I
upgraded to 9.10 but now about 4 times out of 5 I can't log in. When I
try, some kind of text appears very quickly (grey on a black
background), but is qui
I believe I have found a workaround for my problem, and I'm hoping that
not only will this help other people work around it also, but it may
help developers track down the bug. What I did was enable the grub2
bootup menu that is hidden by default. Apparently Ubuntu 9.10 uses a
new bootloader cal
I am having a very similar problem with Ubuntu 9.10. About 2 out of 3
times when I log in, I see the graphics screen change quickly to a black
text-only screen, then I see some kind of text (maybe an error message)
print too quickly to read, then it pops right back to the graphical
login screen.
