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[James Wilkinson]

Ubuntu Warrior wrote:
> Did that! Didn't work! Then I looked back at the starting post and
> realised that the problem and solution where listed. Removed the
> JAVA_HOME and PATH settings from /etc/environment and could then boot
> into the system??? Then put back the JAVA_HOME setting and could boot.
> Have left the PATH setting commented out but will try to put that back
> to so that I can be sure it is causing the problem...
> 
> Have just put back the PATH setting in /etc/environment and the system
> bombs again - now I am 100% sure that the PATH setting is causing the
> grief. Have no idea why this is but will have to live without setting
> the PATH environment variable in /etc/environment until I have a
> solution/answer.

Well, don't leave us in suspense! What is the commented out PATH
setting? And what do you normally get if you run
echo $PATH

I suspect the commented out PATH setting leaves out a directory
containing a needed X or GNOME binary. And putting that directory in the
/etc/environment PATH will make everything all happy and friendly...

James.

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