Ubuntu
lightdm package

  1. Bug #969489
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 969489

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 969489] Re: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early?

Quoting Miklos Juhasz (<email address hidden>):
> In the /etc/init/lightdm.conf file adding some delay before executing
> lightdm solves the problem for me:
>
> sleep 10

unacceptable on a 5 second boot :)

> exec lightdm
>
> This way I can also see the Ubuntu boot screen with the progress bar
> which I never saw before. It was just the plain background color
> flashing a couple of times quickly (I have an SSD drive) and after that

Right, I have an SSD drive as well. That's why I thought perhaps lightdm
needs another required event to ensure the nvidia kernel module has
finished loading.