I'm running into the same problem here after a fresh Dapper install. >From .xsession-errors:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "zerokarmaleft" /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... /etc/gdm/Xsession: Executing default failed, will try to run x-terminal-emulator Failsafe GNOME seems to be the only way to login to GNOME via GDM. Stopping GDM and starting X from the console also works without incident. -- gnome-session failed https://launchpad.net/bugs/45951 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
