Ok, I tried the suggested methods as follows: * Try using the "recovery mode" option in grub, then "Resume normal boot" - Same thing - just stopped loading the gnome session with a light brown background. Mouse still responsive, but this is the same state as I'm experiencing normally unless I use the "failsafe session". * Try using the "recovery mode" option in grub, then drop to a command line and try launching X via "startx" - The option seemed to be to drop to a root shell, so I ran "sudo -u mthaddon -i" and then ran "startx". This stopped loading with a sort of highly pixelated black and white background (almost grey because the pixelation was so dense). * Try disabling compiz (one way is to just chmod a-x /usr/bin/compiz) - This didn't change things at all - still getting the gnome session hanging on load. * Try creating a new user and log in as that - Same again - gnome session hanging on load * Try switching to the "vesa" driver in xorg.conf - I tried two things here. I stopped gdm, and then from a command line tried to simply alter the "Driver" entry under the "Device" section of xorg.conf. After this gdm didn't want to start at all. The screen blinked a few times but eventually just returned me to the command line. After this I tried the same procedure (after a reboot), but ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" instead of changing xorg.conf manually. This left me with the same issue as described above - gnome session failed to load beyond the light brown screen.
Hope there's something useful there amongst that info... Thanks, Tom -- After intrepid upgrade, gnome session won't start unless logging into "failsafe gnome" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
