2008/5/25 Ryan de Laplante <ryan at ijws.com>: > >> A grey screen and a mouse pointer after login sounds like this bug: >> >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1681 >> >> I've had the same issue until I removed the ospm-applet from my startup. >> > > The ticket suggested booting to the login screen and waiting some time > before logging in. I waited hours (went out) then logged in. Same gray > screen. There is absolutely nothing on the screen except a mouse pointer. > No gnome panels, icons or anything. I don't think gnome panel is even > running but I can't check because I don't know how to drop to a command > prompt from here. In Linux I could press CTRL-ALT-F1 or something like that > to switch to console. > > I have had times where I log in, gnome starts and I can see each item it > adds to the panel takes a good 30 seconds or so, while CPU is under heavy > use. I think this is different.
You might want to check ~/.xsession-errors or the dmesg command output. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
