Video problems on bootup - X crashing, timeout, errors - bug and workaround

[doctordruidphd]

There are several threads on this forum relating to problems with video on bootup. These may manifest as one or more error screens, greeter not loading, blank screen, :0.0 display somewhere other than CTRL-ALT-F7, and maybe more.
One thread:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3108191.0

There are several others.
A bug report has been filed on this, and a workaround has been posted:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+b...3?comments=all

Essentially, the workaround is this:

sudo mv /etc/init/failsafe-x.conf /etc/init/failsafe-x.conf-disable

Works like a charm here.

[chessmani]

Re: Video problems on bootup - X crashing, timeout, errors - bug and workaround

This doesn't apply for me. I don't even have /etc/init/failsafe-x.conf... nvidia 190.42 here btw. My problem is different from what you described in the bug though.

X just timeouts most of the time and no other error is given. startx works after loging in to a terminal.