Andreas writes: > for the last couple of days I get some very strange behavior when I > try to log in to Gnome after starting up the computer or restarting X.
This just hit me this morning. > X seems to start alright. However, when I log in on my usual account > (pc), it just shows the blank screen. I can move the mouse, but > nothing else happens -- neither my desktop starts nor any apps open > from a previous session. There is some disk activity for a while, but > it may well be from background services, not sure about that. I get the same behavior. > I kill X via ctrl-alt-backspace and log in via gdm as another > user. Everything works ok. Then, I start another session via > Applications-> System Tools -> New login. It brings up gdm, I log in > as pc again and, voil� -- everything runs as expected! I tried other users also but none of them worked, even a new user. > Do you have any idea what could be wrong there? I think it's a problem with hald. I get the following in .xsession-errors: -- libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised "No reply within specified time" ** (gnome-volume-manager:7712): WARNING **: manager.c/1105: seems that HAL is not running -- Killing the hald process allows logging in to complete (as far as I can tell). By the way, I use experimental gnome packages. -- Chris Thiel
