Booted into recovery mode then root (had to remove plymouth -which was reinstalled by some partial upgrade- to get recovery mode working). Added another user. Rebooted. Both user names appear in the login screen, but clicking either one makes the screen fade out and in again. Background stays on all the time, so no X resetting.
I'm adding /var/log/auth.log from the last time I actually could use the pc. Last night's updates to X and ATI/Radeon broke it completely and so does the live cd. No way left to boot it into anything usable since I'm not even getting a terminal anymore, let alone a GUI. Highly frustrating, I had XP (worked), Jaunty (great) and Karmic (less great) on this laptop. Lucid has regressed over the last days to the point of wanting to get rid of it for all the headaches in KMS (kernel / X / ATI), plymouth, devicekit and gdm. Let's see if I can find some motivation to stick with it, before it drives me back to an os I neither like nor trust. Tom ** Attachment added: "/var/log/auth.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42654380/auth.log -- lucid lynx - login screen stuck in a loop - SYSTEM BROKEN https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516520 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
