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[Dave Gilbert <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Colin Law (864010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I am seeing the same symptom after login with a black screen and stuck
> mouse pointer in the middle of screen (well actually at mid point of
> virtual screen as I have dual screen setup) and similar messages in the
> logs.  For me it is intermittent, maybe one time in 5.
> 
> @Dave, you say that you can recover by restarting lightdm, can you
> explain how to do this?  I cannot even get a terminal with ctrl alt F1,
> though when I click the power button it does power down normally after a
> few seconds.

I was ssh'd into the machine, so did it with something like
  sudo stop lightdm      (which errored, because it was already dead)
  sudo start lightdm

Dave
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Title:
  lightdm segfault in libglib

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