Comment 53 for bug 136529

First of all, thanks for all the help here! I just wanted to add that just using "startx&" without creating a .xinitrc ends with the same results: my GNOME session won't start. After a few seconds of harddisk activity the PC just stops loading and does nothing anymore (at least as far as I can see). I have indeed upgraded my machine from Feisty to Gutsy and from there to Hardy via the dist-upgrade option (meaning via network).
I tried to do a fresh install yesterday with the daily live CD of 2008-01-08, but as this CD still seems to use the 2.6.24-2 kernel it didn't even boot at first. I then used the boot option "acpi=off" and the kernel seemed to boot at first - but then just stopped while trying to start the X session and fell back to the console. I tried to get it to run manually, but that didn't work either. I've had the same problems with the Alpha 2 live CD.
I'll now try to kill gnome-keyring after boot and report back with the results.

Bernhard