Comment 131 for bug 969489

When X fails to start, I don't get the safe mode screen; I just have a blinking cursor in the top left corner. This occurs during random bootups, and without any interaction; the failure is before the username/password textbox is presented. I'm not sure what the "something happening during login" could be. The system is not set to autologin.

During those bootups that fail, I typically log in to a tty and run "sudo service lightm restart". If I run "sudo service lightdm start", then I get a message about how lightdm is already running.

Any ideas what my issue is? Are you sure that it is not the same race condition biting me?