Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logging into a blank white screen
John Levin wrote: Hi all, Something is borked on my Lenovo 3000 N500 laptop :( When I boot up, I get the log-in screen as per normal, but after logging in I'm faced with a blank white screen, wether with the normal gnome desktop or the failsafe. I can get into a shell no probs. Amongst the errors in .xsession-errors is: ** (nautilus:8497): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported I'm presuming that this has been triggered by a recent update, but cannot recall any that would affect the display. Booting into a crunchbang live cd works fine Running an up to date jaunty with Intel graphics. Suggestions? TIA John Update: installed lxde and can get into that fine. Seems to be a bug with gnome. Anybody seeing anything similar? John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logging into a blank white screen
John Levin wrote: John Levin wrote: Hi all, Something is borked on my Lenovo 3000 N500 laptop :( snip And one more update: I can log into gnome as a different user. So it's something corrupt in my profile. Can't think of what it could be - any suggestions? TIA John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logging into a blank white screen
John Levin wrote: John Levin wrote: John Levin wrote: Hi all, Something is borked on my Lenovo 3000 N500 laptop :( snip And one more update: I can log into gnome as a different user. So it's something corrupt in my profile. Can't think of what it could be - any suggestions? TIA John Hmmm, you say you can get to terminal right? If you can login to a terminal (either console or other terminal) under your normal user account, try renaming .gnome2 and .gnome2_private (they are usually hidden directories): mv .gnome2 .gnome2-old mv .gnome2_private .gnome2_private-old Then log out and try logging in again and see if it makes any difference. With any luck Gnome should re-create the folders and fix the problem. If all else fails just rename the folders back. Hope this helps. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logging into a blank white screen
Rob Beard wrote: John Levin wrote: John Levin wrote: John Levin wrote: Hi all, Something is borked on my Lenovo 3000 N500 laptop :( snip And one more update: I can log into gnome as a different user. So it's something corrupt in my profile. Can't think of what it could be - any suggestions? TIA John Hmmm, you say you can get to terminal right? If you can login to a terminal (either console or other terminal) under your normal user account, try renaming .gnome2 and .gnome2_private (they are usually hidden directories): mv .gnome2 .gnome2-old mv .gnome2_private .gnome2_private-old Then log out and try logging in again and see if it makes any difference. With any luck Gnome should re-create the folders and fix the problem. If all else fails just rename the folders back. Hope this helps. Rob Didn't work but by renaming my .config folder everything is (more or less) back as it should be. Thanks for your help! John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
