[jaunty] Cannot Start Gnome Desktop

[Noel J. Bergman]

As of today, upon rebooting, the Gnome desktop in Jaunty does not load. I get the login screen, I provide credentials, I get the backdrop, and then nothing. In the logs, I find the following:

 x-session-manager[6644]: WARNING: Application 'seahorse-daemon.desktop' failed to register before timeout
 x-session-manager[6644]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-panel.desktop' failed to register before timeout
 x-session-manager[6644]: WARNING: Application 'nautilus.desktop' failed to register before timeout

I did go ahead and create a brand-new, fresh, account just to be sure that this is not caused by something that has gotten messed up in my own configuration settings. The new account shows the same behavior.

So Jaunty is toast for me at the moment. I'm running on Intrepid. Can reinstall Jaunty, wait for a fix, and/or do some testing. Just let me know. :-)

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Lest someone comment about perceived hangs and timeouts, I've given Jaunty as long as 10 minutes, with no change.

[none (none12)]

Confirming this bug. I had the same issue with KDE, so its unlikely to be related to gnome-session. Disabling the nvidia driver fixed it for me.

[MiNGUS (aaron-lickmyback)]

I can also confirm this bug, exactly as described. Happens when using any NVIDIA driver but works again when I change the driver in xorg.conf manually back to 'nv'. Log file attached.

[Stefan Verstege (sversteg)]

Same problem here. tried all nvidia drivers. no luck..

[MiNGUS (aaron-lickmyback)]

Removing Compiz fixes this:

# apt-get remove --purge compiz*

Obviously this is not a solution, but does this mean it's a Compiz bug?

[MiNGUS (aaron-lickmyback)]

This bug appears to be related to (although not strictly a duplicate of) <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/291467">#291467</a>.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

This is a duplicate of bug 326344