For me some of the latest updates for Dapper seem to have fixed this for me and I now have the issues described in Bug #38845.
I had this same issue in the 5.04 days. Can anyone else confirm that gnome is now starting as described in #38845 and not just displaying brown ? -- Gnome wont start if date is incorrect. https://launchpad.net/bugs/23426 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
