For the sake of not being "totally useless" here's what I recall of this story, this happened on mom-in-law machine, so there's nothing more I can contribute, being in other city as of now.
I have been testing gutsy alpha, beta and final on that machine. Always using the update-manager GUI for the updates. On the last update if requested for a "partial upgrade" which I accepted and I also agreed with it to "remove obsolete packages" or something similar. After the reboot the problem was there, showing on dmesg on a terminal, I had an usable gnome desktop, but my NTFS partitions won't show on the desktop or auto mount and I had the problem of the CD tray not opening completely.
All the symptoms were resolved once evms was removed using aptitude.
For the sake of not being "totally useless" here's what I recall of this story, this happened on mom-in-law machine, so there's nothing more I can contribute, being in other city as of now.
I have been testing gutsy alpha, beta and final on that machine. Always using the update-manager GUI for the updates. On the last update if requested for a "partial upgrade" which I accepted and I also agreed with it to "remove obsolete packages" or something similar. After the reboot the problem was there, showing on dmesg on a terminal, I had an usable gnome desktop, but my NTFS partitions won't show on the desktop or auto mount and I had the problem of the CD tray not opening completely.
All the symptoms were resolved once evms was removed using aptitude.
Hope this helps and keep up the great work.