Comment 21 for bug 128803

I also have similar problem on my Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop with Intel integrated video. But it takes more than 10 minutes between entering login credentials and showing gnome panels, if I previously removed .gnome2, .gnome, .gconf, .gconfd.
If I hasn't cleaned up configs than it only shows background and thats all. Alt-F2 doesnt'works, Ctrl-Alt-F1/F6 works fine.
Gutsy fully updated, network-manager was removed (works incorrectly with my WiFi).
Disabling ACPI doesn't help.