On a hunch, I tried booting to the Gutsy daily-live CD of today (Sat Sep 1 2007). This did not solve the issue. However, I then tried repeatedly tapping CTRL-ALT-F1 during boot as to get to a console, and then proceeded to stop GDM (sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop). Then, I proceeded to remove the compiz-related packages and restarted GDM after doing a killall gdm just to be sure. Surprisedly, I was this time greeted with a working desktop, however I had to start metacity myself for some reason.
This bug might possibly be related to Desktop Effects support detection? -- Gnome startup doesn't go through correctly on Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
