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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: upstart
  
  When starting the normal way, I never get the gdm screen, as X seems wrongly launched. Screen stays black without cursor nor alphnumeric characters. No activity seems present on hard disk. Leaving the system in this state many minutes don't produce changes at all. Every thing seems blocked.
  But when starting  with the same kernel but using recovery grub entry, getting the recovery menu and selecting 'root command line' (third menu line), I get the root single user command line, where I type 'telinit 5' and then every thing works properly: X starts correctly, gdm open the login window and I can get into the system as usual.
  It seems to me that the init process does not start X the same way as 'single user+telinit 5', and it fails on this machine.
  On all other 8 computer I manage, there is no such problem using the same kernel and normal start procedure. This bug occurs only with this particular hardware. In all computers I use the same Ubuntu 8.04.2 with all packages up to date.
  Additionaly, in this computer I don't have Opengl direct support as states 'glxinfo' . My graphic subsystem is therefore poorly recognized.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed May  6 05:51:44 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  ExecutablePath: /sbin/init
  Package: upstart 0.3.9-2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
  SourcePackage: upstart
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686
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+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
+ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890 [Chrome9] Integrated Video (rev 11)

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Recovery start+telinit 5 is the only way to start correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372556
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