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 allow my bad user to log into GNOME again. I've attached the offending file so that further investigation can focus on why this configuration file causes the GNOME session to not start successfully. Aside from the fact that it appears to indicate that I have two monitors of differing resolutions located on top of each other, I'm not sure what is wrong. If the content is bad, then GNOME should have rejected it and used some sensible fallback configuration. At minimum, it should have logged the problem somewhere. ** Attachment added: "Originally ~/.config/monitors.xml" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36798632/monitors.xml.txt -- 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
