10.04 installation - can't log in - Gnome power manager problem?

[u.rusty]

Hello everyone,


I am having a little trouble installing Ubuntu 10.04.02 LTS in dual boot configuration with WinXP on my old Toshiba M65-S8091 notebook computer. I downloaded and burned an image of 10.04.02 LTS to a CD and booted my notebook from the disc live, without any issues. So, I decided to install it to the notebook in dual boot with Windows. The installation went fine, I resized the drive partition from 100GB to 80GB for WinXP, and 20GB for Ubuntu (consisting of two partitions). After the installation completed I booted into WinXP without any problems.


So, I tried booting Ubuntu, but during the boot process a dialog box pops up saying: “There is a problem with the configuration server (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)” After clicking the OK button, the log in dialog pops up but there is text at the top right corner of the screen that says: “The configuration defaults for Gnome power manager have not been installed correctly. When I attempt to log in the configuration server error dialog pops up again after clicking OK the log in dialog pops up again.


I am not sure what I should do to fix this problem. What is the recommended course of action?

[Dutch70]

Hi and welcome to UF
I did a little google search for (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256) and found a couple interesting things that might help.
There is a lot more on the subject, but I'll just post 2 links, one is a bug report.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1061084 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1061084)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/269215 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/269215)

[u.rusty]

Thank you for the reply Dutch. I guess I could have done some searching before posting. Anyway, I reinstalled Ubuntu and that seemed to fix the problem. Both operating systems are working well. Thanks again!

Russ

[Dutch70]

Well, hate to hear you had to reinstall to do it, but glad you got everything working good again.

[u.rusty]

The only thing that I can think of that was different between the first and the second installation was that during the first installation I chose to transfer the setting from the WinXP OS, or at least I remember something like that. While during the second installation, I didn't see any dialog asking me about transferring settings. I'm not sure, but that may have been the difference.

On a side note, I am very impressed how well 10.04.02 LTS is working on my old Toshiba notebook computer. This machine seems to have new life instilled in it! I have tried everything that I can think of and to my amazement, it all works! I installed my network printer without any problem, all of the function keys, screen brightness, touch pad disable/enable, etc work. I'm really loving this operating system!

[Dutch70]

Nice! If you're like a lot of us here, it won't be long until you want to give Ubuntu more space on your hard drive, if not the entire hard drive. :P

[u.rusty]

It's funny that you should say that, after discovering how well Ubuntu works with the stuff I normally do, I gave it more space last night. I started to laugh when I read your post Dutch70!


I'm really lovin' Ubuntu!

[Dutch70]

LOL, good timing huh. :P