Can't login into Gnome after updates yersterday (10.04

[seanh]

On 30 September 2010 17:15, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks NoOp. I did all that, but the problem hasn't cleared up. None
of those commands did anything, there were no more package updates to
get etc. Then after rebooting the problem remains.