desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[dino99 <580755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This version has expired

** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580755

Title:
  Login screen locks up; mouse & keyboard are disabled

Status in gdm package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  Ubuntu 10.04
  GDM 2.30.0-0ubuntu5

  On 07/05/2010, I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04.

  When I tried to boot, I had problems at the login screen:
  I get either of the following:
  . A locked screen with no mouse or keyboard capability. So I press & hold the start button for 6 seconds to stop the PC.
  . The screen is not initially locked, but after I select my user & try to enter my password, It either locks up as above or it locks up & keeps looping through saying the user/PW combination is not valid (sometimes filling the PW line with dots).

  Once, it worked perfectly!?

  So, from then on, I booted using the fail-safe mode.

  The install went reasonably well. I did not take the option to include
  updates at the same time.

  I did accept to allow the upgrade tool to delete all suggested files
  (I don't know what most of them were for, but I was happy to get rid
  of a lot of old kernels, etc.). This deletion may have been the reason
  for my subsequent problems.

  I thought that the missing updates would help, so allowed those to be
  installed, but the problems persisted.

  From reading other posts, I gained the impression that this login
  problem may be caused by the graphics driver.

  I am not a skilled Linux user, even though I have been using Ubuntu
  for 4 years.  Some of the following comments may suggest that I know
  what I am doing, but I don't, & have been spending many hours
  searching for a solution over the past week.

  I now know that I have a 5-year-old ATI graphics card. However, at one
  stage during the boot, it said to configure an NVidia graphics driver.
  This didn't help.

  Hardware Driver didn't help, as it merely comments "No proprietary
  drivers are in use on this system".

  I tried to work out what was wrong with the graphics driver, & soon
  realised that it was set up for the wrong card type.

  After lots of searching files, I thought fglrx might be the solution,
  & downloaded that (even though ATI said that the legacy cards support
  stopped over 1 year ago). It didn't help.

  I then noticed that there was no /etc/x11/xorg.conf, only backups &
  failsafe.

  So I copied failsafe to xorg.conf, & changed the driver to "radeon".
  This didn't help.

  I did try the "reconfigure graphics" option that comes up when using
  the fail-safe mode.

  I changed the driver to “fbdev”, but this didn't help the login
  problem, so I changed it back to "radeon".  I still have HD graphics
  (from using the failsafe boot), so I think that I will stay with
  "radeon", as it seems to be the right driver.

  [The other problem that I had had is that there was no network
  connection for 2 days.  I use a cable connection, but instead of the
  "wired" icon on the top right corner, I had the "wireless" icon!?
  from checking on my Mythbuntu (9.10) PC, I determined that there was
  nothing wrong with my router or modem or ISP...]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gdm 2.30.0-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat May 15 08:41:25 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_AU.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gdm

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/580755/+subscriptions