Natty will not boot

[Curt Tresenriter]

On 12/9/2011 6:09 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 04:51:43AM -0600, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
>> I just rebooted my Natty install and have it set to log me in w/o a
>> password but am presented with the chooser screen. I am the only
>> user and there is just one user account. Clicking on the acct. name
>> looks like it will give me the password field but it just loops back
>> to the login screen.
>>
>> What may have happened?
> Your login session seems to be crashing.
>
> Can you switch to a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in, and look at the
> .xsession-errors file for clues (less .xsession-errors)?
>
> Alternatively, try choosing a different session type in the login
> screen.
>
> Marius Gedminas
>
A different session was my first thought after running "fix broken 
packages" from the recovery mode, however there are only two choices at 
the login screen, one is to shutdown, logoff, etc., the other is 
assistive tools or something like that. There is no sessions 
choice/button. ACPI was one thing that was updated but made no 
difference. Then I found someone who resolved the issue by adding:
Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "AIGLX" "off"
  EndSection
to the xorg.conf file.
now it's hanging at the splash screen.
I'll give it a few minutes to see if anything happens - can't get to a 
console ATM, then I'll have a look at .xsession-errors.