Can you give me some instructions how to nail down the actual cause of these problems?
The symptoms are so varied and instrutable, it almost looks as if some race conditions deep down in the software stack leave stuff in inconsistent state.
Logging pertinent status information for each startup might be a good start.
The system is showing the login screen even though everything has been configured to not show the login screen. Finding out the reason why would be a good start, then I'd look for the reasons for the reason, until the root cause is found.
(This might even be a hardware glitch, but without any pointers to a concrete failure I can't turn in the machine for fixing. Also, if it's a hardware problem, it would be worth it submitting a bug report to whatever software subsystem should have logged it.)
Can you give me some instructions how to nail down the actual cause of these problems?
The symptoms are so varied and instrutable, it almost looks as if some race conditions deep down in the software stack leave stuff in inconsistent state.
Logging pertinent status information for each startup might be a good start.
The system is showing the login screen even though everything has been configured to not show the login screen. Finding out the reason why would be a good start, then I'd look for the reasons for the reason, until the root cause is found.
(This might even be a hardware glitch, but without any pointers to a concrete failure I can't turn in the machine for fixing. Also, if it's a hardware problem, it would be worth it submitting a bug report to whatever software subsystem should have logged it.)