(In reply to comment #4)
> This is a pretty critical issue if it is the same thing that happened to me. I
> downloaded about 100 font files using synaptic:
synaptic is not used in the installer. While there is some commonality here,
it's a different bug. Please don't upgrade the severity of this one.
> Moreover, on reboot, I could only get in using the terminal interface.
(In reply to comment #4)
> This is a pretty critical issue if it is the same thing that happened to me. I
> downloaded about 100 font files using synaptic:
synaptic is not used in the installer. While there is some commonality here,
it's a different bug. Please don't upgrade the severity of this one.
> Moreover, on reboot, I could only get in using the terminal interface.
This seems to me to be a flaw in GNOME.