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  1. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    That seems to have sorted things once and for all. Thanks again, now hopefully I can get to enjoy and learn about Ubuntu without being plagued by problems!
  2. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    Is there any danger this will mess things up further?
  3. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    Just noticed that the interface I have now is a little different: no power symbol in the top corner nor the social icon with my username displayed. Also the networking icon is in the top corner...
  4. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    It works!

    Thank you ever so much for all your help, I wish I could do something for you!

    I think I uninstalled too many files with Evolution in the title as Ubuntu is now working, but there's...
  5. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    the last line I can see is


    Nothing else has happened in about 2 mins. Does that mean it's finished and I can try to log in again?
  6. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    only saw your gnome-session post now. Gnome appears to be installing.
  7. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    Mine says: drwxr-xr-x 47 donal donal 4096 2010-06-11 19:35 donal

    the majority of files in /home/donal are drwxr-xr-x

    some others are -rw-------.

    Every file has my username as twice (file...
  8. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    the xsession code told me "Can't open /home/donal/.profile
  9. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    I don't understand or recognise anything in the auth log.

    The daemon log mentions that I couldn't launch evolution-on-alarm-notify.desktop (it took a couple of attempt to uninstall Evolution...
  10. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    That hasn't worked either I'm afraid. Any other ideas?

    (Thanks a lot for your help by the way)

    EDIT: No joy following the gdm restart either unfortunately.

    EDIT 2: Don't know if this helps,...
  11. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    What should happen if that works?
  12. [SOLVED] Re: Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    I have plenty disk space, 13GB out of 17GB.

    Anything else I should try as I'm in there?
  13. [SOLVED] Can't get past login screen in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

    I installed Ubuntu for the first time yesterday by running Wubi on Windows Vista Home Premium. For all of yesterday and up to lunchtime today Ubuntu was working fine. I followed the instructions on a...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't get past login screen

    I'm having the same problem.

    R00ster, how do you get to the session errors?

    JohnVLang, how do I back up .profile once I've typed ctrl+alt+f1?
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    [ubuntu] Re: cant log in

    I have the same problem and I booted to recovery mode and entered startx on the command prompt. My screen just went black, other than the mouse arrow.

    I don't know what XFCE is, I just want to...
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