No login screen after splash

[Jeff Hsu]

Nothing loads when I do that.  To be fair though, I just tried to
reinstall gnome-applets and this was a bad thing as it starts giving
me errors in aptitude

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:45 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/17/2010 01:50 PM, Jeff Hsu wrote:
>> Sorry if I mess up on any of the terminology, I'm new to ubuntu.  I
>> recently installed ubuntu on my laptop and my desktop and both worked
>> great.  However after a couple of restarts it boots up to the splash,
>> but no login box is shown.  This happens on both my laptop and my
>> desktop on karmic and lucid 10.04.  I can ctrl+alt+f1 and login fine.
>> I stop gdm and startx to get the gui going and everything works fine.
>> However, the applets do not load.   I have tried numerous solutions
>> found on the web such as setting the
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.modeset=1" and turning off power
>> management.
>>
>> The laptop uses integrated intel graphics.  The desktop uses an ati
>> radeon, I've tried turning on and off the drivers.  Any help would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> I reckon that it's something in your config files if it was working
> previously. When you startx can you Alt-F2 and 'gnome-panel' and see if
> the panels load?
>
>
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