No login screen after splash

[Christopher Chan]

>
> Okay I fixed the problem.  I had installed zlib 1.2.5 from source
> from: http://www.zlib.net/.  Once I sudo make uninstall from the zlib
> source directory it fixed EVERYTHING from the dpkg errors to the
> applet errors to the login.  I'm not sure why that could of caused so
> many problems.
>

Why on earth did you do that? You should have made a zlib1g package 
instead and updated your existing zlib.