Can't login into Gnome after updates yersterday (10.04

[NoOp]

On 09/30/2010 10:25 AM, seanh wrote:
> 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.
> 

<quote>
"The configuration defaults for Gnome Power Manager have not been
installed correctly."
</quote>

gnome-power-manager always has give me fits on my desktop. You might try
purging & then reinstalling. Note that doing so will also remove the
ubuntu-desktop (no worries, you probably need to reload it anyway & you
can safely run without it. If you leave it uninstalled, remember to
reinstall prior to doing any version upgrade):

$ sudo apt-get -s purge gnome-power-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libicns1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-power-manager* ubuntu-desktop*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Purg ubuntu-desktop [1.197]
Purg gnome-power-manager [2.30.0-0ubuntu1]

Note that I'm using the '-s' in the command to "simulate" the action -
remove it when you actually do it.

then:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager ubuntu-desktop