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 .xsession_errors file. In particular, the message that had seemed suspicious to me initially about an assertion failure in gnome-settings-daemon is still there.
However, later messages in the failed session such as "Connection reset by peer" and "Resource temporarily unavailable" referring to the X server do not appear in the successful session. I would like to figure out what significant difference there is between the old and new accounts that causes the session to fail, both so I can repair my original account, and so that whatever bug caused the settings to be broken in the update can be repaired. -- Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
