Brown screen and mouse cursor after login.

[luke949]

It may be a problem with hal in a race with gdm.lol

This may fix:

sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S20dbus /etc/rc2.d/S12dbus

Please read this entire report first, in order to decide for yourself if this looks like what you want to do. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...bus/+bug/25931
I am not an expert.

I decided not to execute this command, I am not getting any hanging issues when browsing through files. Thank you for the heads up.

[luke949]

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[spiderbatdad]

Lost sight of your issue. Is it still a login issue and failure to initialize HAL, or is it now a wireless issue?

[luke949]

I can log into failsafe mode, but the error still popups and I am not getting any internet through wireless connection or in wired connection.

[spiderbatdad]

going to need some info on your wireless card:

sudo lshw -C net

The issue with HAL may yet be solved by the previous bug report, but would require you verify the rc.d files exist in your installation. That report deals with initializing HAL before gdm tries to start. I think that's the problem there.

[luke949]

I get this in response:

*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: AR2413 802.11bg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications INC.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
logical name wifi0
version: 01
serial: 00:19:7d:d7:2f:8e
width: 32 bits
clock 33MHz
capabilities: pmbus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci driverversion=0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.2) latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g




Sorry for my slow response, I had to type this all out since I have no way of copying from one my laptop to this computer

[spiderbatdad]

Try runing

sudo modprobe ath_pci

You may need to use the madwifi drivers available for this card. Sorry I can't be of more help with this card. Surely there are some posts...maybe google ubuntu AR2413

[encompass]

I don't think that is the issue... it's prbably gnome...
Can you try selecting a session when you login?
For example failsafe gnome...
type your username...
then press F10...
select change session... choose fail safe gnome or something else....
Does it login?
if not... restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace and try to do a login as normal...
anything?
If not... we could even try to clean out your settings and see if that is the issue.
But lets get the report from this first.

[luke949]

I don't think that is the issue... it's prbably gnome...
Can you try selecting a session when you login?
For example failsafe gnome...
type your username...
then press F10...
select change session... choose fail safe gnome or something else....
Does it login?
if not... restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace and try to do a login as normal...
anything?
If not... we could even try to clean out your settings and see if that is the issue.
But lets get the report from this first.

Yes I can log into failsafe GNOME.

[encompass]

Read the entire post before doing anything....
I had a very similar issue...
Ends up if you move all your data into another place... for example...
you have your /home/username/ directory right? now in there is a bunch of files which contain all your settings...
if you take every hidden file and directory and move it into a directory like this...

mkdir ~/backupCheck/
mv ~/.* ~/backupCheck/

and then restart your computer and try to login again... does it work?
if not.. then there is something that I can't figure out for you.
If it does work... then it's probably in something from those files you moved... you can slowly move one after another to find which one it is... but odds are it's your .gconf or .gnome and probably something in there.
Now you may lose some settings. But at least your going to be back up and running again. Most of the settings you may loose... if this works... are things like... your passwords for wireless connections and a few other things. But they aren't something you can setup again.