Ubuntu 12.04LTS mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
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I have ubuntu 12.04LTS 64bit running on an i5 dual core 8G RAM. On startup I get the message
mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth [OK]
And the system looks stuck. However, if I go to tty1, then I can login and startx and everything seems to be fine except for being a bit sluggish. I can verify that my nfs mounts are ok, and that my swap is ok.
Every time I reboot the system there is a _gdm_gdm_crash file in my /var/crash, which makes me think my problem is rooted in gdm, X configs and/or nvidia drivers.
A bit of background in case it's relevant: 3 hours ago my desktop crashed. Following various 'tips' on the web I made a complete mess of my X server and X configuration files, and at one point I even had to recreate my swap partition. Anyway, after much struggle I managed to get to the state I mentioned above: I have a working system provided I always login through tty1.
What is this Plymouth anyway?
Would it make a difference if I used gnome-wm instead of gdm or lightdm? (I mean to the startup, not to me :-)
What bit of config do I change to tell startx to use gnome-wm not gdm or ligthdm?
Thank you in advance
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