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My newly dual booting system is working great with this one annoyance scenario:

  1. I boot the system, but don't touch anything.
  2. The screen eventually goes dark.
  3. I touch a key and get the login screen.
  4. I enter my password and hit enter.
  5. The login screen disappears, but I never get the desktop. It just hangs.

I am able to ssh in and reboot the system. If I log in promptly then it's fine.

I'd settle for an answer telling me how to make the power saver never kick in and make the login screen go dark. Or, a fix for the root cause.

More info: It's stock Ubuntu 14.04 so I assume it's Unity. Graphics are "Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR" according to System Settings/Details.

Logs will be posted next time it happens.

***Update - this hasn't happened since I posted the bounty.

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    You may want to update your question with the additional information you have provided. can you show us the contents of /var/log/ligthdm/*.log files? Also /var/log/Xorg.0.log
    – j0h
    Mar 13, 2015 at 20:18
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    Great suggestion, I will do that.
    – Organic Marble
    Mar 13, 2015 at 20:41
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    @j0h If I may suggest, pkill lightdm && sudo service lightdm start should be more appropriate
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Mar 13, 2015 at 23:27
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    Have you tried changing the greeter (aka the login screen ) ? There's alternatives I use - gdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, lightdm-webkit-greeter.
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Mar 14, 2015 at 16:43
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    @OrganicMarble There is a graphical tool for checking the logs: from the dash search for Log Viewer
    – zloster
    Mar 15, 2015 at 19:08

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I was also on the Same Boat when I had 14.04 Now I am on Velvet !

Here is the solution script that I has worked for me:

#!/bin/bash
echo
echo Install BleachBit
echo
apt-get install bleachbit -y
echo
echo Clean
echo
apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean
echo
echo Update & Upgrade
echo
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
echo
echo
echo BleachBit Cleaning
echo
bleachbit -c adobe_reader.*
bleachbit -c apt.*
bleachbit -c chromium.*
bleachbit -c deepscan.*
bleachbit -c epiphany.*
bleachbit -c evolution.*
bleachbit -c filezilla.*
bleachbit -c firefox.*
bleachbit -c google_chrome.*
bleachbit -c kde.*
bleachbit -c java.*
bleachbit -c system.cache
bleachbit -c system.clipboard
bleachbit -c system.custom
bleachbit -c system.desktop_entry
bleachbit -c system.localizations
bleachbit -c system.memory
bleachbit -c system.recent_documents
bleachbit -c system.rotated_logs
bleachbit -c system.tmp
bleachbit -c system.trash
bleachbit -c opera.*
bleachbit -c thumbnails.*
bleachbit -c transmission.*
bleachbit -c x11.*
bleachbit -c vlc.*
bleachbit -c wine.*
echo 
echo Clean Up
echo
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
echo
echo BleachBit ReBleach System
echo
bleachbit -c system.cache
bleachbit -c system.clipboard
bleachbit -c system.custom
bleachbit -c system.desktop_entry
bleachbit -c system.localizations
bleachbit -c system.memory
bleachbit -c system.recent_documents
bleachbit -c system.rotated_logs
bleachbit -c system.tmp
bleachbit -c system.trash
echo
echo Processes Complete
echo
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  • I am not a fan of bleachbit. Thanks though.
    – Organic Marble
    Mar 19, 2015 at 11:58

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