@Jonathan - thanks for testing! Good news. Yes, I think you are right re friendly-recovery.
@Erick and others - I attach an updated gdm.conf which might help. Looking at the old gdm.conf, I think it was missing a condition which this new gdm.conf adds. Please let me know your findings. Thanks for your patience! ** Attachment added: "gdm.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/436936/+attachment/1915134/+files/gdm.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436936 Title: gdm upstart job checks /proc/cmdline for single user mode, won't start on post-boot runlevel change -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs