Confirmed - I also had this problem - correct username/password would return me to the gdm welcome screen. Installing gnome-session as per comment #18 fixed the issue - so this package is for some reason left out of the dist-upgrade.
I upgraded 9.10 to lucid on my HP Mini 5101 (i386) thus: sudo sed -i s/karmic/lucid/g /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -- GDM login fails with regular gnome-session (lucid, i386) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
