>> 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. > I have uninstalled all compiz packages and rebooted. I still get a completely blank screen and mouse pointer whenever logging in. I have captured the .xsession-errors file and am about to re-install the OS. There are some interesting errors in both files.
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