Hi, Not using 9.04 at the moment, but many of your problems seem to have to do with a corrupted .Xauthority, or an issue with permissions on .Xauthority. If the user in question is not currently logged into the GUI, you can safely delete ~/.Xauthority (or move it to ~/.Xauthority.bak if you are paranoid), and it will be recreated.
That should fix at least some of the issues. The other possibility is that you have some display hardware that needs a restricted Linux kernel module, and it cannot work because your packages seem not to be configured correctly. If so, you should still be able to boot into an older kernel from the Grub boot menu. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
