Comment 3 for bug 539507

Patrice I could not see the screen very well in the video but wonder if what I'm seeing is similar. Upon completing installation and booting into the new install instead of going to GDM I'm presented with a text login, so I enter username + password which takes me to a command prompt, eg: lance@lance-desktop:~$.

Thereafter I can not startx, I didn't try Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Alt-F7, but if I then remove plymouth (apt-get purge plymouth) and sudo reboot I can then boot fine (of course with no quiet splash). Is this similar to what you're seeing?