Hi,

I'm having some strange behavior on my machine with my normal user account (logging in under root or another account seems to work fine). It all started after I left my machine on and it eventually ran the battery down.
Now when I login I get a black screen with a arrow pointer on it for ~2-3 minutes post login and then eventually my gnome desktop appears.

Any thoughts or suggestions? I have done some searching but most problems that are similar are either xorg.conf or ESD related and don't seem to apply here.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Additional random information:
1) I can switch to the command line environment while I'm at the black screen

2) My .xsessions-errors file has stuff like

localuser:<username> being added to access control list
No profile for user '<username>' found
SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2646
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/<username>/.metacity/sessions/1204856262-2805-23957321.ms: Failed to open file '/home/<username>/.metacity/sessions/1204856262-2805-23957321.ms': No such file or directory
Getting adapter list failed: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Passkey agent registration failed: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service
files

It's been a while since I've used Gnome, but from the errors is seems as if you are trying to read a saved session and aren't able to. Try saving your session again once everything comes up.

HTH

Forrest

Hi Forrestt,

Excellent. Running gnome-session-save did the trick!

THanks.

Mike

Glad I could help

Forrest