login to gnome fails

[JR]

I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 last week, everything worked fine until now. I started up the machine (did a correct shutdown yesterday) and now I can't login to gnome. the only thing I found in the logs that looks like it could have something to do with that is:

gdm-session-worker[2427]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory
gdm-simple-greeter[2424]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
gdm-session-worker[2427]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
gnome-session[2457]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'gnome-volume-manager.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager" (No such file or directory)
gdm-binary[2012]: WARNING: Error activating session for user JR: Unable to activate session

I have another user on that machine, login to that user does work, but that doesn't help me!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 1 07:40:32 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2

[JR (juergen-richtsfeld)]

login to gnome-failsave or the xterm session type doesn't work either.

[JR (juergen-richtsfeld)]

the problem was, that I added

export MAKEFLAGS=-j 4

to my .profile.

this caused all the trouble. In my opinion this must never cause a login failure.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I have reassigned this issue to gdm package for you.