After recovery mode login and apt-get updat and then dist-upgrade a lot of stuff was upgraded.
danie@weer:~$ cat .dmrc [Desktop] Language=af_ZA.utf8 Layout=us Langlist=af_ZA:en LCMess=af_ZA.UTF-8 Session=gnome-fallback-compiz Now I can login again. Now in gnome-flashback. Font is very small and I still have flickering of screen on mouse movement and window refresh. No flickering with recovery mode login. cat .xsession-errors Script for cjkv started at run_im. Script for default started at run_im. configuration: driver=pcieport resources: irq:40 ioport:b000(size=4096) memory:fea00000-feafffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456) *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: RV370 [Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250729 Title: Pre-Ubuntu 13.10 user (with cjkv) can not login with lightdm (ibus) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1250729/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs