[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2009-01-06 Thread Sebastien Bacher
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 278722 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278722 the comments suggest kde doesn't handle the alternative setting correctly ** Changed in: kdelibs (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gnome-desktop = kdelibs -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2009-01-06 Thread Jonathan Thomas
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 278722 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278722 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 278722 Fail Safe login broken due to missing xterm -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-12-18 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xorg-server Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-12-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
Based on pretty much every confirmers' comment, the issue is resolved by fiddling with gnome bits, with no change to X required, so this pretty clearly is a gnome bug not an X bug. Upstream seems to concur. Reassigning. ** Changed in: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename:

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-11-05 Thread Richard
Thanks Mark I too had a similar problem and did as you said I removed the following .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd and logged in just fine to one of the users that were affected. But in my case not all logins were affected, for some reason the logins that had admin access worked fine but the

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-11-04 Thread Keith Moseley
Ah, yes, I remember seeing something just before the login screen came up that referred to 'kdm being nonexistent' or some such. I thought it was strange but didn't make the connection between it and this bug. I can state, I think with a certain amount of surety, that the problem you've

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-11-04 Thread cannam
I had this problem exactly as described in the original report, after an upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10. I eventually tracked it down to a dangling link from /etc/alternatives/x -session-manager. It was pointing to a nonexistent KDE4 startkde script, which presumably used to exist in 8.04. I had

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-11-03 Thread Geir Ove Myhr
** Tags added: 965gm intel intrepid regression xorg -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-11-01 Thread Keith Moseley
I've since done a fresh install for other reasons. Problem solved with xclient script. Something must have gone wrong during the upgrade. Regards -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-31 Thread Keith Moseley
Hi. I've just upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid with the official release. I have this same issue. I am running the AMD64 build on a laptop with intel x3100 graphics and 965 chipset. Not sure if it's relevant, but my one of my gdm logs had this at the end: (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log,

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-30 Thread ces
This happened to me as well, and setting the session to GNOME fixed it; however, when trying to run the guest session, it seems to be running the Xclient script still, since it just hangs on a black screen like it did when I uses to login to my normal user account. Any idea how to fix this, or at

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Haddon
I tried this (choosing Gnome as session) and confirmed it works for me too. Didn't try this before as I assumed that's what it was using before, but obviously not... -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-27 Thread Fabian Ferreyra
I followed Casper guide, and choosing Gnome as session, now starts ok. -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-26 Thread Valeryan_24
Hello, Thanks for your help but it did not work for me. As I found no other solution, I reinstalled this morning from a fresh and clean Iso of the Intrepid Release Candidate, all updates after got well and for the moment it is OK. Best regards. -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-25 Thread Valeryan_24
Hello, I'm exactly in the same case, as described here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=957672 I was still on Intrepid beta, all worked fine, but after the last update of yesterday, going on RC, at reboot all was normal until login, but after just a blank screen, with only the mouse

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-25 Thread Valeryan_24
In console mode, it is also written desktop tty1 I tired a sudo apt-get upgrade : Some errors occurred during execution (I translate from french) /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-session_2.24.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-applets_2.24.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-25 Thread Casper Aleva
Simply choosing a Gnome session at the GDM login screen (instead of the default that was 'Run Xclient script' according to the message that pops up when entering password) solved the problem for me. No need to remove the .gnome* etc directories. Running Intrepid RC or newer, but not newer than

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-25 Thread Casper Aleva
... and lspci -vvnn ** Attachment added: lspci-vvnn.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1408/lspci-vvnn.txt -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-25 Thread Casper Aleva
For what it's worth: first I thought I had the compiz hanging problem described at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/259385 but removing compiz didn't work for me. Compiz works fine after the workaround I described above. -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-19 Thread Christopher Story
I resolved this bug on my installation by removing all of the gnome and compiz config files in my home directory and re-selecting gnome as the session type in the gdm login screen. Does this work for anyone else? -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-19 Thread seedifferently
Christopher, What config files exactly did you remove? I haven't been able to resolve this issue for my installation. Seth -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-19 Thread Mark McSweeney
I want to confirm that resetting GNOME desktop also allowed me to log in normally. I removed the following files: .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity restarted gdm, selected new Gnome session and I was good to go. Mark -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-18 Thread Tom Haddon
Per Bryce's suggestion: - lspci -vvnn output attached - Booted into intrepid live CD (beta) - worked fine - gave me a clean gnome session - get-edid | parse-edid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# get-edid | parse-edid get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1 Performing real mode VBE call

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-18 Thread Tom Haddon
Just noticed that trying to switch to Guest Session from my regular user account hangs with the same symptoms - i.e. hangs with a light brown background. Pressing ctr+alt+backspace brought me back to the password prompt to re-login to my own user account's session. Should I file this as a

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-16 Thread Fabian Ferreyra
I'm having the same problem after upgrading from Hardy. I have all the essential Gnome 2.24 packages installed, and the system up-to-date. Using the Failsafe session works fine. Maybe the problem is something from Hardy that's not installed on Intrepid? If there's anything I could do to help,

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Assignee: Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) = (unassigned) -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-10 Thread iQ.mind
I have the same problem as Tom Haddon explained. Do you know any workaround just to be able use my system? -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-10 Thread iQ.mind
I just reinstalled Intrepid beta from CD and everything works fine. This time I don't install system updates, because last time doing that caused this problem. So, I think, problem is with those updates. There are more than 200 of them, so I can't tell exactly which one of them caused this

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-10 Thread iQ.mind
I think the problem is with removing gnome-control-center and some other gnome-* packages. I've just checked for system updates again and noticed changes: no one of gnome-* packages is going to be removed. Maybe this time it wouldn't brake, but I don't want to try it, because I'm tired of

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-10 Thread iQ.mind
I've tried to update system, because I noticed changes in what package were going to be updated and removed. And, good news, I don't have the problem described in this report anymore. :) -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-10 Thread John A. Hull
I had this problem today after I did an update of my intrepid amd64 install (hadn't updated in several days). I looked in synaptics and found that the latest of several gnome packages were not installed, including gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, nautilus, gnome- common, and

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-09 Thread C10uD
i have intrepid running with latest updates - till yesterday i could log in perfectly, today gdm loads, i log in and then i get nothing but an application that is scheduled for autostart and a gnome-power-manager error. i tried the read-edid thing and seems broken, i'm trying to hardcode video

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Tom Haddon
Attached Xorg.0.log. Will try the other options mentioned, thx. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18312748/Xorg.0.log -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Tom Haddon
Ok, I tried the suggested methods as follows: * Try using the recovery mode option in grub, then Resume normal boot - Same thing - just stopped loading the gnome session with a light brown background. Mouse still responsive, but this is the same state as I'm experiencing normally unless I use

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Tom Haddon
** Attachment added: Contents of /var/log/gdm http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18351033/gdm.tar.gz -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Tom Haddon
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log while running failsafe gnome session http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18351154/Xorg.0.log -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
Here's the error from running with vesa. (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Sounds like EDID isn't working for this case; may need to hardcode the modes for it to work. Odd. -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = xserver-xorg-video-intel Importance: Undecided = High Assignee: (unassigned) = Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) Status: New = Triaged -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Tom, I've forwarded this bug upstream to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17985. Could you please subscribe to this bug, in case upstream wishes further information or needs you to test something? Thanks ahead of time. Also, three other things: 1. Please attach the output of

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-08 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: xorg-server Status: Unknown = Confirmed -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-07 Thread Vladimir DurĂ¡n
I upgraded too from Hardy to Intrepid, but something with GDM went wrong. Now I only see my screen flickering :( To enter to a somewhat usable desktop, I have to kill X, stop GDM and do sudo xinit, then close it with ctrl+alt+backspace then do a startx from a TTY to get to my Gnome Desktop :S

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-07 Thread Tom Haddon
Vladimir, yours sounds like a different problem, and I'd suggest it needs a different bug report. I can get the gdm login screen fine, it's just after I've entered my username and password that it fails to complete the gnome session initialization. -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-07 Thread Filip Sufitchi
Bump, and it also happens to me after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 via the update-manager. I'm running on x86_64 arch, with dual core, 2 GB ram and nVidia GeForce M8400 GS. The hardware being slow is definitely not the problem here. My hard drive isn't even working when it hangs, either.

[Bug 279450] Re: After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into failsafe gnome

2008-10-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
The symptoms described are fairly generic so it's hard to say what's going on. Some things to do: * Attach your Xorg.0.log. If it is an X bug (which it sort of sounds like), this is required. * Try using the recovery mode option in grub, then Resume normal boot * Try using the recovery mode