Ubuntu
gdm package

  1. Bug #430494
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 430494

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Tomi Hukkalainen (tpievila) wrote :

Doesn't seem like it. Exact same symptoms: 'start gdm' reports a pid, but gdm does not come up. syslog shows that it tried to spawn too many times. sudo gdm does work just fine.

It seems like this is still related to booting into recovery mode and then continuing the boot.