I have been experiencing the same problems (I've been dueling with my laptop for hours to have a working session to repport this bug, and got sometime so frustrated I was an inch away from installing another distro).
What else can I say about this bug ... First, the gnome "features" that doesn't work are not all the same, I always had the login sound, but I never had the gnome splash welcome screen. I sometimes had no panels, and I've experienced a few times where I had just one panel (the tom one, the bottom one being absent). I too, sometime had my desktop (background with icons) or nothing at all (just a bacground color, no picture). By the way, if I have the panels or at least one panel, that means that the desktop is ok, I never experienced it the other way (pannel without desktop). I too, made some experiment, I didn't create a temporary account but moved my home directory to a temporary directory (my idea was that I had some bad tweaking / options and I wanted to start with a clean home folder). This time, the login was perfect, I then transfered my documents from my temp folder to my brand new working home folder and made a few tweakings : - I changed the background (used the bacground elephant) - I added the system monitor applet to my top panel - I changed the number of workspaces from 2 to 4 - I changed the 3D visual effect from normal to extra (this may be important) I then rebooted and tryed to log again with my new tweaked home directory, and I found myself with a nice but useless desktop (with my new background) but no panels, I was able to right click it and get a contextual menu, I even created a new folder that apperad on my desktop. I was a bit frustrated, you can guess, but I didn't stop. I moved again my home folder and created a new empty one, I the logged in that account, and found myself with the same desktop, with no panels, note that THE BACROUND IMAGE WAS THE ONE I CHANGED FOR WITH MY ANCIENT ACCOUNT, I was I think supposed to see the default bacground as I was loging in using an empty home folder, without any config file or gconf base. I used my girlfriend account to write this comment, it work and has never stopped working (but has never bean tweaked). I attach my Xsession-error file to this comment ** Attachment added: ".xsession-errors" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9970694/.xsession-errors -- Login fails, failsafe login fails, gconf doesn't start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150460 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
