On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:13:02 +1200
Kerry Mayes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I've just upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty on three machines but am having
> difficulty with one machine.  The problem is that after logging in, I
> just get a black screen with the mouse pointer, which I can move
> around but get no other response.  I've had no luck finding anything
> on this error via google, the reported bugs, or on the Ubuntu forum so
> I've been trying to do more diagnosis before reporting it as a bug.
> 
> I can ctrl+alt+F1 to get a terminal screen and I can log in via ssh.
> 
> I can log in to a "failsafe gnome" session but this just gives me a
> terminal window with no window manager (I can run one graphical
> programme but it has no window controls).
> 
> So far I have found that the scripts in xsession.d all seem to be
> being executed:
> Synergy, which I have loading from a script in xsession.d, runs fine
> in any position I put it in in that directory - though I can't put it
> after 99x11-common_start
> 
> How would I progress from here?

What's your graphics card. I've got nvidia, and was using the non-free drivers. 
These weren't installed by defult. However, I did get a low res interface.

Can you publish the output from

   grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

so we can see the errors??

Cheers,

Steve
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Steve Holdoway <[email protected]>
http://www.greengecko.co.nz

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