I've already been through a number of threads, so I'll summarize my situation and my attempts so far:
When I get to lightdm or gdm, I enter my information then get returned to lightdm or gdm. I use gnome-shell as my environment.
I have already done:
- Moved .Xauthority to .Xauthority.backup
- Changed from lightdm to gdm (and back)
I've gotten to tty1 and done:
sudo apt-get install --fix-brokensudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradesudo dpkg --configure -a
None of which have helped - there were no prompts for either process, although apt-get update upgraded linux-headers-generic and linux-image-generic. I've looked through dmesg, and there are no warnings or critical messages.
I feel like from the other messages that I'm a victim of a partial upgrade, but searching on that gets me the same information. I'm out of ideas. Help!
grep lightdm /var/log/syslog) and in/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log. Also you can try to start the X server from tty1(startx) to see if you get any error or warning. – Salem Nov 16 '12 at 13:56xstartI get a desktop, but it asks for a keyring login, and compiz crashed at least once. I don't have gnome-shell at all. – b. e. hollenbeck Nov 16 '12 at 14:43pastebinit. Maybe someone can get a hint from where the problem comes from with them. – Salem Nov 16 '12 at 15:30