Comment 93 for bug 199960

I'm not sure if my issue is with the settings daemon or not. I am running Hardy on my laptop and desktop. My desktop had feisty AMD64 so I did a clean install of Hardy i386 so I could use the programs that haven't made it to the 64-bit architecture. My laptop was just upgraded to Hardy since it was already running Feisty i386. My desktop hasn't had any problems but my laptop has had this issue since the upgrade. I switched just after the official release so I have been just dealing with it for over a month now. I have applied all updates that have shown up thinking that a fix was coming sooner or later. My laptop has never had XGL installed and compiz has always been disabled because my on-board graphics card doesn't work with compiz. Yet I still have this issue where my gnome session won't start unless I change the session to gnome failsafe (or terminal failsafe and type 'gnome-session'). When I try to log in normally I briefly see a flash of a terminal screen and catch something at the bottom about "startup scripts" and the screen goes black and stays there until I get frustrated and manually turn off the power. Luckily I have still been able to use it in "gnome failsafe" mode or I might have destroyed my laptop by now. So if this issue is fixed how do I do it? None of the released updates have made a difference and nothing here has worked except for the "failsafe terminal" start. Please help me.........