I'm having this problem too and none of the solutions above to increase the gdm timeouts are working for me. In my case, about 80% of the time I get the console login upon bootup. So much more serious. My brute force work around was to add a little script that gets run at boot up after a small delay to start gdm. If it's already started, the script doesn't affect anything, but otherwise, at least GDM gets loaded:
1. sudo nano /etc/crontab add this line to the end: @reboot root /root/gdmstart 2. sudo nano /root/gdmstart with this contents: #!/bin/bash sleep 6 /usr/sbin/service gdm start 3. sudo chmod u+x /root/gdmstart -- nvidia driver sometime does not load at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532436 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
