Comment 22 for bug 430494

@Klaus - Yes, afaik we have the same packages and I update daily and read many of the change logs to see if any updates will help or give me a clue as to where the problem may be.

I did have a thought. Afaik with Upstart a service can have dependencies, so we start gdm, but gdm depends (for example) so that triggers the X server to start. Looking at the man pages I see that some services may be started such that they can return success without waiting for dependencies. I wonder if one of the dependent upstart processes is failing and therefore gdm is silently failing.