[Bug 540774] Re: G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
UPDATE: Solved and my problem had nothing to do with this mentioned error message as it turns out. Now I can log in and this CRITICAL message still appears in my syslog. I first copied all of my system folders (hidden dot folders) out of the way and verified that I could log in and then carefully copied them back in a few chunks at a time, logging out and back in after each edit, and finally found the culprit to be my .profile! Somehow, possibly by an accidental edit of mine(?), a line in it that set my PATH had got truncated leaving off the trailing important bits. export PATH=some_path_of_mine:$PATH had become ... export PATH=some_path_of_mine ... with no trailing $PATH or quotation mark. I'm really surprised that this killed my login capabilities so drastically though!!! Wow. Sorry for the false alarm on the G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN(value)'failed message. Although I can safely say that the message is still coming up, but what harm it is doing I don't know. :) -- G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540774 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
[Bug 540774] Re: G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
On a reboot, possibly from an auto-upgrade of one of the packages (?), I now can't log in. I get the login window, type in my login and password, it goes off thinking for about 5 or 6 seconds with the screen going black during this time, and then the computer beeps at me and I'm right back to the login screen. No message, no information. Booting off a thumbdrive and then mounting the disk to look at /var/log/syslog I find the above message as the last message in that file. That's the only thing I can find that looks wrong. Can anyone help me with this? -- G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540774 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
[Bug 540774] Re: G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Oh, I also can't get a shell open. If I login in as failSafe Gnome or xterm I get the exact same problem. So I can only mount the disk as shown but not get the specific instance up to add packages (at least I don't know how to) such as out-lined in the DebuggingProgramCrash wiki page mentioned above. :( -- G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540774 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
[Bug 540774] Re: G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Update: My co-worker taught me the magic of chroot. I mounted my hard drive after booting off the thumb drive and then did ... cd MOUNT_POINT sudo chroot . And was then able to add a user to my install using adduser. I *can* successfully log in as that user and then su - to my regular user. But I can't seem to figure out how to run gconf-cleaner since it gives me a cannot open display exception no matter what I export the display to. But if I run sudo gconf-cleaner it runs fine. But I don't know what file I'm cleaning as the results aren't clear at all as to what it operated on. But I still can't log in as my regular user. I'm getting ready to just copy my files over to the new user I created and start over with system configuration with this new user and eventually delete the other. But I would *much* rather know how to fix this issue and get my old user back. -- G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540774 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
