I recently ran a standard update with the update manager (hadn't done so in maybe a month) and when I rebooted and tried to log in I had exactly this problem.
I *cannot* log into my account now no matter what I do -- it just hangs at "restricted-manager". Ps doesn't show a restricted-manager process for me at all, though. However, an interesting caveat: I created a guest account from scratch from the console, and was able to log into that (in gdm!), so my system is not completely screwed, but something in the config of my real user account is causing the login process to hang at restricted-manager. (To be clear: I can log into guest every time; logging into my normal account hangs every time.) Does anyone know a workaround for this?? If I hadn't thought to create the guest account (which really I didn't give high odds of working -- why should it??) I'd be dead in the water, and I'm sure this applies to others as well. I'm running a 64-bit version, Feisty, with an nvidia 8800(?) card, for which I had to install the driver from the nvidia site because the standard driver with feisty was not working. It's been running splendedly for months, until today... If there's something I can do to help track it down, let me know. If there's a likely workaround in the meantime, please let me know. I am still effectively dead in the water because meaningfully syncing the guest account with my real account without absorbing the associated hang will likely be non-trivial. (And, anyway, I can't be the only one running into this -- this needs to be fixed; having a standard update kill a previously working machine is bad news.) -Simon -- nautilus hangs when restricted-manager crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
