Can't login into Gnome after updates yersterday (10.04

[NoOp]

On 09/30/2010 07:58 AM, seanh wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I booted up my computer today and found that I cannot log into the
> Gnome or Failsafe Gnome desktop sessions. The computer boots fine, GDM
> seems to work fine, but on logging in it just shows the GDM background
> and nothing else, nothing happens. My desktop background doesn't
> appear, panels don't appear, right-clicking and left-clicking does
> nothing, etc. I see one notifier message that reads:
> 
> "The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been
> installed correctly."

Boot to recovery mode. Run the dpkg option. Continue to login to the tty
console & then:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install -f
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

reboot & see if that clears things up.
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