Above I had already described a manual workaround. After killling -9 gnome-session one can use the terminal provided by the rescue session to start gnome-session (the new Ubuntu gui is even more unusable then Gnome-3)
Killing gdm and running startx is not necessary. Cheers Mike -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811822 Title: gnome-session gets stuck utilizing 100% cpu time of one core To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/811822/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs