Public bug reported: This is the most strange bug I ever saw... A friend of mine contacted me, that he cannot login to his gnome because the gnome bar will not start up and all he gets is a blank screen - he has to do init 1 and init 2 to circumvent this problem. I got this problem too bug couldnt find a solution here but I think it's connected to my main problem:
After waking up in the morning (my laptop is switched on at night - I never saw this bug occur another time) then "sometimes" my wlan is diconnected and in the past I didn't see another solution to reconnect but to restart my laptop. But today I investigated further and found out, that I cannont start any application except a special few like the calculator and inkscape! If I try to start, say, gedit the harddisk will begin to work, the mouse pointer will change but then nothing happens. I cannont start up a new terminal but if I try to start gedit from a terminal I get nothing - not even an error message. I even cannot quit the app with STRG+C! Even in the console I can do some commands and others will simply hang unresponsive. I read that this kind of problem can occur when the loopback interface gets disconnected by some error but I cannot restart it since ifconfig is one of the apps that wont start. I cannot even connect through ssh to this laptop because it looses all network. I also cannot switch virtual consoles because the screen gets all black and I have to use REISUB. I'm eager to solve this bug so please tell me what command outputs you need to have! ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Cannot start new applications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159430 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