Hi,

I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 and libgtk2.0-dev and glade for a long time and 
recently attempted to bring myself into the present by doing a fresh install of 
12.04 LTS.

But once I installed libgtk-3-dev and glade from the repository, I wasn't able 
to log back into the computer unless I typed cntl-alt-F1 and went to TTY. The 
graphical login screen accepts my credentials but then the screen very briefly 
shows a broken pipe message at the top-left of a TTY screen and then the login 
screen re-appears.

Scouring the web shows that many people have similar problems, but that there 
are many possible causes. I tried a number of solutions and one that allows me 
to get past the login while still in a graphical session, is to first go to TTY 
and sudo aptitude install gnome-panel. The problem with this solution is that 
Unity isn't rendered properly and is really unusable.

I *think* I saw that when I installed libgtk-3-dev, all kinds of gnome stuff is 
removed. Anway, it was either libgtk-3-dev or glade, because that's all I 
installed after the OS was installed.

I had tried going to a newer Ubuntu last year with the same results (maybe 
different cause?), so I stayed with 10.04. What's really extraordinary, is that 
last night I re-installed 10.04 when 12.04 failed as described above, and now 
10.04 has the same problem (but with libgtk2.0-dev and glade)! Could it be that 
those libgtk packages have recently been changed and broke the Ubuntu 
interface? Seems unlikely.


Has anybody got suggestions and how to approach this? I saw some people talking 
about lightdm versus gdm. I also tried that (uninstall lightdm, install gdm), 
but *if* I recall (it was a late late night) although I got past login, Unity 
was all buggered with that too.


Dave
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