In order to work around this, I created a new user with new gnome settings and the problem went away. I did however keep all my old settings to try to reproduce the bug, but am no longer able to. I am setting the bug to Invalid until I can reproduce it again.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- gnome does not start properly on jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308242 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs