[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-06-05 Thread hd4146
I'm having the same problem. I get the login prompt, login, then get the beige/brown screen and the mouse pointer. None of the logs have an error message. The trigger for this seemed to be when I had to manually re-installed the gnome power management daemon (I got an error stating the configura

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-03-22 Thread James Gan
I met this problem also. After I upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04, my gnome can't startup as described by Caroline. And I can enter failsafe mode. -- [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196611 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-02-28 Thread Caroline Ford
I have been told my bug is actually a support request - I would hope as a member of the bug squad I would know the difference.. I can't login to gnome any more - something has changed, I'm guessing with a recent update. It's not obviously a problem with X, X restarts fine and the cursor moves. Th

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-02-28 Thread Caroline Ford
The bug is that gnome doesn't start. I don't know what information I can provide - there is nothing in debugging procedures that seemed relevant. I'm still running in failsafe mode and I haven't changed anything. What answer would I want from the support tracker? -- [hardy] Gnome doesn't start

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-02-28 Thread Caroline Ford
making my bug invalid so I can convert to a question. I still think this was handled *very* badly. That message was downright rude. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Invalid => New -- [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19661

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-02-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support ** Changed in: ubuntu Sourcepackagename: gnome-panel => None Importa

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-02-28 Thread Caroline Ford
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12275748/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12275749/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12275750/ProcStatus.txt -- [hardy

[Bug 196611] Re: [hardy] Gnome doesn't start - brown screen and cursor but nothing else

2008-02-28 Thread Caroline Ford
This is nothing to do with yelp - I used "report a problem" in yelp as I couldn't find one connected to gnome-panel. i'm using metacity (my hardware doesn't run compiz). Gnome-panel has changed today as I no longer yet a software updates icon, the pop up box thing doesn't point at anything, just