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Davious
Asked: 2010-10-13 11:34:30 +0800 CST

Hangs on Splash Screen after login (auto-login), how can I fix this?

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Computer: Toshiba Terca A4

OS: Ubuntu Desktop 10.10

After installing 10.10, the splash screen hangs and the mouse pointer appears.

Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

~/.xsession-errors has

(nautilus:3190): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

btw, Safe-mode works:

I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 into a command prompt session and run

ps aux | grep slave

then

sudo kill [id of gdm-simple-slave]

That killed the session and allowed me to login in safe-mode. Safe-mode works. Then I open a terminal and run

ps aux | grep nm-
sudo kill -9 [id of nm-applet]
nm-applet --sm-disable &

to get my internet connection up.

10.10 gdm login-screen installation

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I did a reinstall and that fixed it for me.

    The details are: I did a netbook install -- without mp3 option, without download while installing -- though I suspect that didn't matter and most likely my first install was off a corrupt disk.

    btw, Netbook didn't work for me, there were many more errors with that, but using the Ctrl-Alt-F1 technique above got me a new login session, and logging into the regular desktop was a success. Yey!

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  2. Try setting nautilus back to its default settings. login on a TTY (CTRL+ALT+F1) and run this:

    gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/nautilus

    This will undo all custom settings for nautilus but should correct your problem.

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