Kernel 2.6.20-16.29 fails to login where 2.6.20-16.28 was fine

[ComPerkins]

The recent update to kernel 2.6.20-16.29 for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn fails to login on my machine where the previous version was fine.

i can not login anymore; will mean that when i type my passwort in the gui dialog and confirm with return - it come back approx. after 2 Sec. to the gui-login-dialog.

i changed to console and saw following output:
...
loading, please wait...
usplash: setting mode 1152x864 failed
usplash: using mode 1024x768
Kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/b053174e-f567-4048-a44e-5e12c99cad2c)=sda6(8,6)
Kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/b053174e-f567-4048-a44e-5e12c99cad2c
Kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot...
Ubuntu 7.04 Kubuntu tty1
Kubuntu Login:
...

in the past there was sometime a wrong configuration of xserver with kernel-upgrade, so i tried to fix it with:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
but no effect - the xserver does not start as before

i also found out, that with kernel-upgrade my german-keymap is not present anymore (no öäü and so on..)

what can i do, to downgrade to the last xserver status before the kernel-upgrade???

[ComPerkins (andreaskleine-online)]

perhaps has this something to do with my problem

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/119531

how can i manage this???

[Marcus Granado (mrc-gran)]

I don't think bug 119531 is related to this bug. In that case, grub wasn't being able to find the correct partition to boot up.

In your case, ubuntu is booting up but failing at logon. I believe it's something else.
I had once a problem similar to yours at the gui login dialog. I would try to login and after a few seconds it would return to the same dialog. In my case, it turned out that I had run out of disk space. Maybe somehow your disk or at least your homedir is full?

[ComPerkins (andreaskleine-online)]

thanks for y reply and advice

y are right, my linux partition was full

now every thing goes right again - thanks again

[ComPerkins (andreaskleine-online)]

full disk error