Upgraded to Feisty, but can't start it - not the at-spi bug

Freddy Martinez freddymartinez9 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 11 11:37:09 GMT 2006


might be a problem with X. log in to a fail sail terminal, then type sudo
startx. are you running composite i.e beryl? what kinda graphics card.

On 12/11/06, Krister Ekstrom <krister at kristersplace.ws> wrote:
>
> Hello folks.
> A couple days ago i upgraded from Edgy to Feisty, yes it's a little
> early, but i wanted to see how the new feisty looks. Well, as more or
> less expected Feistys gnome wouldn't start, i got the Gdm login screen
> but after typing name and password, nothing happened and after hitting
> enter once more i was back at the login prompt again. I thought it was
> the at-spi bug mentioned here on the list and so i waited a couple days
> for some upgrade to come. Today though i had a sighted guy look at my
> screen while logging in and it turns out that what happens is that after
> typing username and password, there pops up a big empty window with a
> smaller empty window in it. No text, it's just empty.
> This leads me to believe that something got broken during the Feisty
> dist-upgrade. Is there a way to reinstall the whole Feisty distro via
> apt-get? As i don't know what could've gone wrong and Feisty claims it
> has Gnome and everything installed, i don't know what to do here other
> than reinstall.
> Thanks for any help.
> /Krister
>
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