I have debugged gdm with: strace -f gdm --nodaemon
When the gdmgreeter starts up you can see that it reads the same config files in a loop. It does not stop if it is not able to open the files. ** Attachment added: "strace_gdmgreeter.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13049898/strace_gdmgreeter.log -- gdm hangs after theme upgrade and reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210538 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