[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen

2009-12-14 Thread Ross Berteig
I have found a workaround, and appear to have repaired my original user account's settings. I found by comparing the various settings files and folders that the bad user had a file named ~/.config/monitors.xml but the newly created and usable user did not. Renaming that file was sufficient to allo

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen

2009-12-11 Thread Ross Berteig
Interesting. A brand new user account gets a working session. I created a new user, and tried logging in to the default GNOME session. This gave me the default desktop, panels and menus. At this point, I can see that even a "successful" login produces a fair number of error messages in the .xsessi

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495252] [NEW] Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen

2009-12-10 Thread Ross Berteig
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg I allowed the most recent high priority updates to install yesterday, on an otherwise up to date installation of Ubuntu Karmic. I didn't take careful notes on what packages were being updated, but I do recall mention of both the kernel (to 2.6.31-16

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495252] Re: Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen

2009-12-10 Thread Ross Berteig
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672601/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672602/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36672603/Dependencies.txt ** A