Okay. I tried this again, following directions from wiki.samba.org. Everything seemed to be working, until I rebooted and I was met with no logon once again. The system IS running! The system IS responding!! I know that because there’s an “intel_powerclamp: CPU does not support MWAIT” warning on tty1 and when I switch to the other ttys using ctrl-alt-F*, the warning disappears, and reappears when I return to tty1. Something about the winbind setup is preventing the login prompts AND GDM3 from presenting. It could be that it’s trying to enumerate our massive user list, but I had specified winbind not to in the smbd.conf file. Something else might be trying to enumerate it anyways. I’m going to let the VM sit for a few hours, just to see if it resolves itself. If it doesn’t, then I’ve lost another virtual HD and I’ll have to restore it from the backup. If it DOES resolve itself… Any ideas as to what I should do to make this thing play nice at login?
Thanks!!!