Kubuntu Jaunty does not display KDM after boot up

[Alvin]

On 20/03/2010 05:50, Andrew C wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am on Kubuntu Jaunty using
> iamme at incognito-\~ :uname -ap
> Linux incognito 2.6.28-18-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:23:03 UTC
> 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
> iamme at incognito-\~ :
> 
> and usually after the boot up process the KDM/Login/Welcome screen fails
> to load
> and to redy this I,
> 1. Hard reboot the system > Choose the "Recovery Module" option on grub
> 2. run xfix and fsck and then normal resume
> 
> I tried Google and finding a bug, but either I am using the wrong keywords
> or am the only one with the issue.
> 
> Was wondering how to remedy this, any suggestions ?

I have seen this problem on a number of machines. In my case, KDM did
not start because there were old files in /tmp.

Normally, (K)Ubuntu *should* erase /tmp at boot, but it doesn't. There
are all kinds of things wrong with the Karmic startup, and I don't know
it this problem applies to Jaunty as well.

My quick-but-actually-not-dirty solution in /etc/fstab: use tmpfs
tmpfs	/tmp	tmpfs	defaults	0 0
(Erase or umount /tmp first)