Locking up when logging out.

[Christian]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:37:23 +0000, Hans Muecke wrote:

> Am 19.01.2014 03:23, schrieb Christian:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 13.10 x64 on a Thinkpad laptop. Everything works
>> except for one thing: Often when I log out of a account I end up with a
>> black screen with a blinking cursor "-" on the top left of the screen.
>> The only way out of it is opening another console and reboot from
>> there.
>> I have tried to kill the locked up session but do not know how to get
>> back to a login prompt. This doesn't happen all the time but it is
>> probably around half of the times I log out. Otherwise my install is
>> pretty standard running Unity as desktop and LightDM as display
>> manager.
>> There's no such problems when I reboot.
>>
>> Any idea what may be causing this?
> 
> I had something similar with 12.04LTS when I used an outdated nvidia
> driver ...

This laptop has Intel graphics with the latest drivers, so I think I can 
rule out outdated drivers :) 


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//Christian