I'm having a similar issue when I updated from 8.04 to 8.10... My system was working great until I installed 8.10 and rebooted... Now I can't get passed after the GDM login page... Once I inform the credentials and click on the login button, the x screen gets refreshed but gnome won't load... I'm stuck with an empty window...
Going to the root console, I could manage to see a weird message in the auth.log file. Here it is:
Code:
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session opened for user pantro by (uid=0)
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: pam_ck_connector(gdm:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup keyring component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: )gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup ssh component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: )gnome-keyring-daemon: couldn't lookup pkcs11 component setting: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: No protocol specified
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
Nov 5 22:59:55 pantro gdm[7838]: )
I didn't notice any helpful message in the syslog.
Below are relevant details my environment:
- AMD 64bit processor
- Two monitors (which I though it was the cause of my issue, so I rebooted in the recovery mode and tried to fix the X server. That didn't fix the problem)
- Nvidia card (I was using nvidia's proprietary drivers)
- Wireless network card (that always worked fine, I'm not using any proprietary software)
- Wireless Network configured with WPA ('tsk' mode I think, will double check)
So, I'm two days now without my ubuntu and I'm getting impatient... If this is not "fixable", I'm willing to reinstall Ubuntu from a liveCD, but without deleting all my personal stuff...
Hope you guys have any clue on what might be happening...
Thanks,
Wagner
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