X and GDM not Starting Automatically

**Joseph Schwenker** · December 24th, 2010

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This issue still persists.

**Joseph Schwenker** · December 25th, 2010

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The best Christmas present ever would be this issue solved...

**Joseph Schwenker** · January 3rd, 2011

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Happy Three Week Anniversary!

**Joseph Schwenker** · January 6th, 2011

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CAN I AT LEAST GET ONE REPLY?!

**Joseph Schwenker** · January 6th, 2011

This issue might even be a security problem. There are options on the recovery menu involving root which may or may not require the root password. My system is in potential danger. PLEASE HELP ME! JESUS! IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS!

**Joseph Schwenker** · January 6th, 2011

I just got some help from the people in #ubuntu on IRC. They solved the problem for me. The problem was with /etc/default/grub.

Code:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=>>1680x1050-24<<,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

This file was my previous grub. After changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= to "quiet splash" (running sudo update-grub after I changed the file, of course) I was able to get a properly functioning system. Thanks for your help in #ubuntu, guys!