Reinstalled ubuntu-desktop, rebooted. Same behaviour as before: clicking on either my username or on the 'other user' bar leads to the login screen fading out and coming back within a second. Loop-di-loop... The bar at the bottom of the screen is completely blank apart from the clock, so I can't choose any options for gnome to use.
Back to the workaround I described earlier (recovery mode > resume normal boot > login > startx) Tom -- lucid lynx - login screen stuck in a loop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516520 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