By the way, by google'ing a bit, I found something which seems to be a bit similar to my problem at least: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633851
Also there was an article mentioning that "all your gconf schemas have been unregistered for some reason" and suggesting this: cd /usr/share/gconf/schemas/ sudo /usr/sbin/gconf-schemas --register *.schemas However this was a quite old post so I doubt it's my case (and btw, it hasn't worked anyway ...) ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #633851 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633851 -- 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/852485 Title: [oneiric] cannot login, failed to load session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/852485/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
