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[Vadim Radionov <question78177@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #78177 on Ubuntu:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78177

Updating yesterday (prev. update 3 weeks ago) on 8.04 (on Thinkpad x61s) resulted in the following:
The boot flows presumably normal up to "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK] "
Then it attempts to switch to graphic mode and immediately falls back to text mode.  After a couple of such attempts the blue text appears saying "The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0"

syslog contains a sequence of pairs:

gdm[5825]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: child 9049 crashed of signal 6
gdm[5825]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
gdm[5825]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: child 9201 crashed of signal 6
gdm[5825]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
..

The updated packages included (skipping version numbers)
dbus dhcp3 firefox gvfs, several lib's, linux-headers linux-image linux-kernel-devel linux-libc-dev linux-source nautilus pulseaudio ruby and xulrunner




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