I had the same problem until I found that thread: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/79023/?highlight=gnomesession
ESD is the problem. I logged into a safe xterm session, started esd manually and then gnome-session. After I disabled esd everything worked again. Shortly before I wanted to try pulseaudio, maybe that was the cause. Stracing gnome-session showed me, that it wanted to make a connection to localhost:16001 and hanged there forever. -- gnome session hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94285 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
