Follow-up on this bug: I thought I had found a workaround by disabling automatic login and ENabling timed login. After I made this change, the problem did not show itself for the better part of three weeks. However, now the problem arises again, inconsistently as before: sometimes when I let the timed login go into effect (i.e. I do not enter username or pw, I just wait for the countdown to end), my account logs in, the welcome music plays, and the gnome panels appear *incompletely*: the Main Menu and some launch buttons appear in the upper-left corner as usual, but the rest of the panel is empty and the buttons are unresponsive. Note that when I had this issue in the past with automatic login enabled, no buttons ever showed; only empty panels (sometimes) and the background (sometimes).
After some searching I found bug 176903, whose description seems very similar to the symptoms I am experiencing. However, unlike the situation in bug 176903, I did not schedule a FS check prior to experiencing this freeze-up. Additional comment: I am using an Inspiron 1520 laptop with an Intel graphics card which was blacklisted by Compiz for problems. I manually un-blacklisted the driver to allow Compiz to run on my system because Compiz has presented no evident problems to my system so far and seems very stable. However, it just occurred to me that this freeze-up on login may be a consequence of Compiz not being 100% supported by my system (although the issue has occurred even when I switched back to Metacity). If this issue turns out to be due to Compiz being un- blacklisted, I apologize for the confusion and inconvenience. It's difficult for me to figure out exactly what package(s) this bug is related to. -- GNOME automatic login freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194537 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
