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[kolAflash <colAflash@xxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: x11-common

Since a few days, after updating to ureadahead, my kdm login didn't
worked any more. I could find a workaround to it, but in the end i
didn't found out what all that had to do with ureadahead.

I already posted a lot about this problem here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8449299
and here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ureadahead/+bug/484677

So to me is seems like x11-common version 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 and gdm try to detect if the x-session starts correctly and if not they try to start a failsave session.
So if you have kdm and gdm installed, because of something gdm and x11-common doesn't seem to detect the running kdm session and try to start an failsave x11-session.

By this, you get a black screen with a non blinking cursor on the upper
left.

As a workaround, you can:
- switch to gdm OR
- uninstall gdm OR
- downgrade x11-common to 1:7.4+3ubuntu7


This all happend on a system which was updated from 8.10 to 9.04 to 9.10. I'm using all the KDE-Stuff (including kdm) but Gnome is installed too.
If you need more information, please take a look at the links I posted. There is also some stuff from my xorg.log!

Thanks!
kolAflash

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kdm crashing because of gdm and x11-common 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493517
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