Comment 68 for bug 61381

Running the 6.10 release as a live CD I encountered exactly the same problem/error message as is described in the initial posting to this thread. I

* switched to a tty with ctl-alt-f1,
* ran sudo vi /etc/hosts,
* commented out the ::1 line in the ipv6 section,
* ran sudo gnome-session-manager (got "Gtk-Warning ** cannot open display:")
* switched back to the graphical terminal with alt-f7 and
* restarted X with ctl-alt-backspace.

This time the session came up without the gnome-session-manager error message. However, it is still running incredibly slowly (10 minutes and it still hasn't finished putting together the desktop). I'm not connected to a network; wonder if that could be having an effect.