GDM Doesn't Start After Upgrade

[linuxpyro]

I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. While it seemed to go fine, GDM won't start. (Instead the Plymouth bootloader just displays the splash screen continuously.) I can get in through a virtual terminal, but starting GDM via the init script does not do anything. I also tried this:



me@host:~$ sudo gdm
**
ERROR:gdm-settings-direct.c:157:gdm_settings_direct_get_boolean: assertion failed: (entry != NULL)
Aborted


I tried running sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm, but this did not change anything. Logged in from the virtual terminal I can run startx and get the desktop, but obviously I would like to have the login manager working. Anyone else having this problem?

[linuxpyro]

Alright, all I had to do was reinstall GDM and purge the config files, and now it works.

If you have this problem, just do this:



sudo aptitude purge gdm


It'll probably tell you it needs to remove some other packages, just do that and then reinstall them along with GDM.