Ok, I cracked it. I was getting nowhere and so I decided to reinstall and then iteratively check if and where it would break. It turns out too innocent looking lines in /etc/profile are what made gnome-session run for the hills. I run gentoo on my laptop, I copied that file right over and it broke the login sequence. Without further ado, here they are:
alias ls='ls --color -F' alias .='cd ..' The first one I've seen listed as a bug around here, so I commented that one out, but it didn't solve it by itself. Eventually I found out the second one also breaks it. The question is why it breaks it and whether it should break it. I certainly miss those two, among my most used, aliases. :( -- Default gnome session keeps crashing on login https://launchpad.net/bugs/53862 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
