The "five reboot" thing didn't work for me. However, I logged in by failsafe, then disabled all startup applications and I was able to login normally. I then systematically re-enabled the startup applications one by one. The ones that hung up the startup were third party apps:
eeepc-restore eeepc-tray from the following packages: eeepc-acpi-utilities eeepc-tray I've removed them from my system and I am able to log in. -- login manager will only let login with "Failsafe GNOME" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486521 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 -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
