I did try removing the option as you said. That did not work. I restored my system to a default nvidia config using envyng, and ran the bug report generator. The report came in two sections. Here is the first.
** Attachment added: "crash report 1 of 2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18699400/1016crashreport.log -- X fails to start with proprietary nvidia driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs