I am having a very similar problem with Ubuntu 9.10. About 2 out of 3 times when I log in, I see the graphics screen change quickly to a black text-only screen, then I see some kind of text (maybe an error message) print too quickly to read, then it pops right back to the graphical login screen. If I keep trying, eventually I can get logged in. This may be a red herring, but the problem seems to have started right after I changed my machine's hostname from 'ubuntu' to 'biscuit'. Yesterday I edited /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts as follows:
dcr...@biscuit:~$ more /etc/hostname biscuit dcr...@biscuit:~$ more /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 biscuit localhost.localdomain localhost #127.0.1.1 ubuntu # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts dcr...@biscuit:~$ ls /etc/hostname /etc/hosts -la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 2009-12-18 09:51 /etc/hostname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 2009-12-18 10:02 /etc/hosts The one thing I can see that definitely changed after this point in time in my /var/log/messages are the following scary looking segfault and error messages: Dec 19 17:19:49 biscuit kernel: [ 43.734886] gnome-clock-app[1857]: segfault at c ip 00e11705 sp bff86f60 error 4 in libpolkit- gobject-1.so.0.0.0[e06000+19000] Dec 19 17:21:28 biscuit bonobo-activation-server (dcross-2059): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp /dbus-XqVL6LkNEn: Connection refused This is very frustrating, and any help would be appreciated. I am attaching my entire /var/log/messages in case that helps diagnose things. I can post any other info or try anything if someone asks. - Don ** Attachment added: "/var/log/messages" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36981845/messages -- logout without warning shortly after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407488 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
