Comment 6 for bug 277344

This morning I downloaded Intrepid Beta from the official site onto the Thinkpad, verified MD5 sums, verified CD Image on the Thinkpad so its CD drive is O.K.
Beta CD fails the same way as the 20080930 and the 20081001 fail.
Installed the Beta CD on another computer, runs O.K. for a Beta so the CD is O.K.
Installed the Beta CD on the Thinkpad. Install proceeds normally. Boot it up and fails the same way as in the bug report. Either a regular boot or recovery mode & startx and gnome desktop freezes the computer as in the description above.
Alpha 5 runs fine, using it now, so the computer is O.K.

Attached is /home/jerry/.xsession-errors from the Beta. It's got a pile of errors consistent with the logs previously attached above.

One of the first lines says:
x-session-manager[5567]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of required
 component 'windowmanager'

Thanks for looking at this. Jerry