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-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp