I think I saw this, too. In my case, I could see the beige background and the circular timer mouse cursor spinning indefinitely. I went to a text console and ran top. I saw that gdmgreeter was monopolizing the CPU. I editied gdm.conf and switched to gdmlogin, restarted gdm and all was well (though gdmgreeter probably shouldn't be spinning like this).
I didn't find anything apparently relevant in the gdm log, syslog, or Xorg.0.log. I reboot fairly often on my dual boot laptop. I have all the latest updates as of april 1, I use the nvidia binary driver, and have a T61p laptop with a Quadro FX 570M video chip. -- [hardy] GDM hangs on a black screen upon startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203825 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
