Found this thread in the forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2088977
Deleting the ~/.gnome2/session file worked for me as well. -- [apport] gnome-session crashed with SIGSEGV apon login - Gnome Failsafe login was successful https://launchpad.net/bugs/90288 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs