Can't login to Gnome

[anieruddha]

Hi,

I am not able to login to Ubuntu. I installed ubuntu lucid on my dell inspirion 1510 about 2 weeks back. And now not able to login to system. I try to login to shell by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 and I am able to login using same username, password.

But whenever I am trying to login in gnome, login window come again & again.

[dniMretsaM]

Are you sure your typing your password correctly? You could be fatfingering some wrong letters.

[ajgreeny]

Try to login at a command line from the Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then use command
startx to see if that gets you into gnome.

[anieruddha]

Are you sure your typing your password correctly? You could be fatfingering some wrong letters.

Yep I m typing right, thats why I can log into shell



startx

@ajgreeny I am giving that command, & after that I can see only black screen with mouse cursor enable.
I waited for 20 min, but the same screen, no desktop loaded

[anieruddha]

Quick Update
I am not sure if I am on right path or not. But I did following steps

1. remove xserver & gdm



sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get remove --purge gdm


2. Reboot

3. Install again


sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install gdm


And now
1. Login screen shows up
2. I try to log in
3. It shows blank screen with top-left corner xterm window

Any suggestion

[anieruddha]

Seems to I have no luck with gdm. But thanks to google problem solved.

I install another login manager called slim



sudo apt-get install slim
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
-- and select slim


The desktop loading is bit a slow though

[ajgreeny]

You could also try using xdm or perhaps lxdm, both of which offer alternatives to gdm, and may be quicker to desktop.