[Bug 1029590] [NEW] screen left blank on kdm startup after upgrade to kernel 3.2.0-27

[Daniel Savi]

Public bug reported:

After the update to kernel 3.2.0-27-generic yesterday, the screen was left blank after startup. KDM starts fine but no desktop appears. Before the update, weverything just worked fine.
Purging and reinstalling display drivers (fglrx in my case) didn't help.
In the end it turned out, that indatlling the kubuntu-desktop metapackage solves the problem. See this post: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12124863. The metapackage was not installed before. That's why I'm reporting that bug against kubuntu-desktop, although the problem is rather in the upgrade itself.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: kdm 4:4.8.4a-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 26 20:03:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde-workspace
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-06 (81 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.kde4.kdm.backgroundrc: 2012-06-07T10:08:39.929035
mtime.conffile..etc.kde4.kdm.kdmrc: 2012-06-07T10:08:39.929035

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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