Spinning Cursor on boot up. Log in screen doesn't display

[damian]

Hello all,

The upgrade to 7.10 on my girlfriends laptop (Compaq X1000) seemed to go 
fine, but suddenly I can't log in with the GUI any more. The machine 
boots up and gets to the point where the log in screen is about to pop 
up, but it never gets there. The spinning cursor just keeps spinning on 
a plain cream background. I can Control+Alt+F2 to log in, but restarting 
gdm  and trying to startx doesn't sold anything.

I'm a bit of a newbie to the Linux command line so if there's much of 
that then please take baby steps with me.

I searched the forums and found something about dpkg-reconfigure-xxxx 
(can't remember the exact line). I tried that, but still have the same 
problem (and there were so many questions that I responded to without 
knowing the answers that I don't even know if I've made thins worse).

Any ideas?
Thanks
Damian
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