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snakeplizzken
August 11th, 2013, 09:37 AM
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed on a SSD and almost always the computer boots to a black screen and a blinking cursor.
There seems to be a timing problem related to lightdm.

I can still login by entering the password ("in the dark") or
pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to enter terminal mode and once logged in:
> sudo service lightdm restart

I thought the problem was solved by following the advise here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1070150

#16:
Add sleep 2 to /etc/init/lightdm.conf

And it seemed to work but now I discovered that the problem is still there.
I don't have a graphics adapter - only a motherboard (Gigabyte Z77-DS3H) with integrated graphics.

It seems like the SSD is to fast for lightdm. What more can you do?
Any ideas?
This can't be an uncommon problem.

Ohhh... There is a bug report on this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1097521

But it is from January and nothing happens...
Is it so uncommon to use an SSD as boot disk?

Rsxhawk
August 30th, 2013, 09:43 PM
I have this problem as well as I use a 90 gig Kingston SSD as my primary OS drive but I'm running 12.04 LTS. It doesn't happen all the time, and when it does it seems pretty harmless, i just login from the "terminal" like screen that appears since it gives me the opportunity to do so, and then I give the command "startx" and then it boots into the GUI just fine. They do need to fix that.