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Binary package hint: gdm

Applied Dec. 7/8 updates (see attached dpkg.log.part)
Restarted into Windows.
Restarted into Linux.
After throb screen (white Ubuntu logo), gdm never loaded, system went into text-mode.
Logged in & restarted using `shutdown -hr now`.
After throb screen (white Ubuntu logo), gdm never loaded, system went into text-mode.
Logged in & was going through logs.
Display went black, keyboard was unresponsive - required hard reset.
Restarted into recovery mode - no problems after ~20mins.
>From recovery menu I resumed normal boot - went into text-mode again.
I tried a `sudo gdm`, but it gave me some error about :0.22 not having privileges.
Restarted into Windows.
Restarted into Linux -15 kernel. gdm/login went flawlessly.
Restarted into Linux -16 kernel (newest/default). gdm/login went flawlessly.

Also attached is the syslog data from the times that the gui would not
load. 09:37:44 [ 2.****] entires seem to be relevant...

As described, everything seems to be fine now...just very interesting
that booting a different kernel & then the default would fix a
graphics(?) problem.

I am using the radeon driver with a Radeon 9550 (RV350); and, I am using
"options radeon modeset=1" via a file under the /etc/modprobe.d/
directory.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec  8 11:04:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386
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gdm failed to start, forced to text-mode, system froze after a few minutes
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/494087
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