Unable to login to Ubuntu

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I am not able to login to Ubuntu. It boots like normal but hangs when showing the wallpaper, without any panels loaded. The cursor is the waiting circle (hourglass equivalent) and nothing happens.

I've set to logon automatically without prompting for password, and before the last restart, I had installed Docky.

EDIT 1: I logged on to console (recovery mode) and removed all startup applications I added from ~/.config/autostart but it didn't help.

EDIT:2 I removed Docky. Still not logging in. Panels are not getting loaded and Alt+F2 doesn't work

How can I fix this problem?

darthvader

Posted 2011-05-08T10:46:35.170

Reputation: 3 709

What kind of graphics card are you using? – boehj – 2011-05-08T11:13:35.907

Intel default one. not nVidia. BTW, I am not using compiz – darthvader – 2011-05-08T11:16:32.287

I just saw your bit about booting to recovery mode - it appeared while I was writing my answer - so it may no longer be applicable. Still, I'd try and remove Docky and see what happens. – boehj – 2011-05-08T11:26:27.513

Are you attempting to boot into 'Unity' or 'GNOME Classic'? If you're booting into Unity I'd suggest GNOME Classic or whatever it's called. – boehj – 2011-05-08T11:37:42.813

I am using classic – darthvader – 2011-05-08T11:44:53.183

Out of ideas here, sorry @iJeeves. You may have some luck over at askubuntu.com. Sorry I couldn't help. – boehj – 2011-05-08T11:55:37.230

Answers

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If you think Docky has caused this problem, I'd suggest booting into 'Recovery Mode' in Grub2 and then booting into a CLI environment (I forget how this is worded).

From there you could do:

apt-get remove docky

or whatever the package is called.

Reboot and see if you're in luck.

boehj

Posted 2011-05-08T10:46:35.170

Reputation: 1 042

I removed Docky. But still it is the same. – darthvader – 2011-05-08T11:31:53.163

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You can try resetting gnome settings from rescue terminal:

rm -fr .gnome* .gconf*

You will get again the standard gnome configuration when you installed ubuntu for the first time (you will lost wireless passwords too).

Giovanni Toraldo

Posted 2011-05-08T10:46:35.170

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