It seems it is a constant problem. I faced with that, the symptom was: after GRUB booting the big fat nothing happened, only a black screen (sometimes with the Ubuntu logo). Absolutely no answer for the keyboard tries (the F keys and so), I could only make a 'hardreset' (pushing the ON button for 14 seconds). My laptop is a Dell Latitude 5401, and before the problem I've changed the nVidia settings (nVidia GeForce MX150 card from 'on demand' to 'Performance Mode'. The system rewrote the xorg.config file to the nVidia settings, and this way - as I suspected - this caused a window-handler system failure in Ubuntu. Nothing helped, I tried a lot (key-combinations, Boot-Repair from USB, using Boot-Repair's terminal, etc.), but at last I found the solution. I loaded Puppy linux, and this way I managed to access and delete that config file from /etc/X11 (xorg.config). After all, everything goes fine, but now I don't have a xorg.config file in /etc/X11 folder (do I need that at all?).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424511 Title: gnome-panel and window manager do not start on login Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-session After upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic today, I can no longer log into Gnome desktop. All I can see is my wallpaper and (Gnome) mouse pointer. However, launching an xterm session and then executing: gnome-session & gnome-panel & compiz & brings me a fully functional desktop. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 4 22:46:18 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: gnome-session 2.27.91-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic SourcePackage: gnome-session Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/424511/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
