Actually I *can* login via console. A more experienced linux user probably would have realised this straight away, but unfortunately my knowledge/skills are strictly limited and so I only discovered this a couple of hours ago. Once I had made this discovery, I also found that by switching display manager and installing xfce4 I can now login to an xfce session with the password that I set during install. In a way I am happy with this because xfce is my desktop of choice, but I am still none the wiser as to what the original problem is with the gnome session. Hopefully my experiences will help to troubleshoot the problem?

Thanks again to all who have tried to help me and my apologies for not giving you quite the full picture.

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