For some reason the re-install routine described above only worked for a few days then started hanging again. I noticed that it only hangs with one particular user, and not another, so there may be a conflict app on the panel that is causing the trouble. Will investigate further.
Glenn: rather than restarting, you should kill the deskbar process. Ctrl-Alt-F1 will bring up a console, log in then enter command: ps -A | grep deskbar ... this will show you the process ID (a number), then enter command: kill <process ID> ... then Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to Gnome desktop -- Panel hangs on login https://launchpad.net/bugs/46150 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
