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 never actually used KDE4 seriously, but I must have installed it at some point in the old system and run it before reverting to gnome. I guess that means the old KDE4 start script was equally capable of restoring a gnome session, or something. Anyway, "sudo update-alternatives --auto x-session-manager" seems to fix it. (The workaround described in an earlier comment, of explicitly running the GNOME session type, also worked. But I wanted to find a fix that would work for the X client script option as well, because I was also trying to investigate the session script to work out why my session was not being restored properly. Unfortunately, then I ran into bug 249373, "gnome session does not restore the previous session" -- which answers that one. I would never have upgraded to 8.10 if I had known about that absolutely amazing regression. But that's another matter.) Chris -- 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. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
