Hoary: gdm doesn't load

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/17/05, Stephen Ward <s.ward at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> I just upgraded my stable box at home to hoary.  When I reboot, gdm says
> it can't display the human or default theme and loads the 'standard
> greeter'.  The standard greeter won't accept any text though, so I can't
> login via gdm.  I installed xdm and it works ok, but when gnome loads
> none of the images appear  (eg. show desktop button, trashcan,
> Applications menu image, launchers on the menu bar), they are replaced
> with white boxes with a red cross.
> 
> I tried checking my xconfigs but I couldn't see any problems.  When I
> set xdm to open my normal session (xfce4) it works fine.  So the problem
> seems to be very much gnome based.

Make sure you follow all of the post-install steps, namely: 

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop

-Eamonn