Following the update from Karmic to Lucid I've noticed the error message
nForce2_smbus :00:03.2: Error probing SMB2 on the splash screen
during boot too. The boot up process seems to hold for a few seconds up
until this point. From my kern.log,
May 6 07:37:50 kong kernel: [ 29.612512] i2c
Same problem for me - no Window Manager when my session logs in. I can
start compiz manually from System-Preferences-Appearance-Visual
Effects. Other user's don't seem to be affected, although possibly they
aren't using desktop effects.
I tried removing .gconf* .gnome* and .config* after
Restarting NM hadn't helped (I tried that a couple of times - including
making superficial changes to the VPN properties and saving them). I
didn't have to restart the system - just log out the other user that was
logged in.
Subsequently I have restarted the system and the VPN connection is still
Don't know if this is related - but I configured a VPN connection today,
it _was_ immediately visible and _was_ operational. I returned to my PC
later and logged in again (NB - not a reboot + restart) and the entry
simply wasn't shown on the VPN Connections menu any more, although was
visible if I
