quiet useful this command line util :-) ok, the procedure was the following, I'm running 9.04 since Alpha 2 in virtualbox on a 8.10 host system with the latest Sun official Vbox version (newer than the ubunbu one).
I tried to fix some bugs with guys from the gnome IRC - Evolution wasn't able to read Google calendar recuring events. so I installed two or tree packages out of a launchpad ppa which is only related to fix this evo bug. Now I installed the updates and got stuck during update because my host system HDD was full :-) I had to reboot the host, and after that I said Vbox to return to the last stable point of 9.04 guest system which was right after the install. Now I updated again, (about 300 packages) and ended up with a not starting gnome after reboot -> Error message: "the greeter seems to be broken ... try again". I tried it several time ~ 20 after that I switched to command line and tryied to reinstall gdm via APT all was fine starting gdm manually went to the same error. Now on IRC ubuntu+1 s.o. told me tu su my own account and use startx first I got a failed to inalize HAL and later some of those Panel applet wasn't loadable errors. Gnome appeared normally BUT keyboard and mouse wasn't useable anymore. -- GDM fails to load after the install of last updates in jaunty 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331674 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
