Bug#606773: Gnome Log-in Screen

[Rob Stone]

Package: gnome

Output of uname -a

Linux roblaptop 2.6.32-3-686 #1 SMP Thu Feb 25 06:14:20 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
 

The log-in screen appears, I enter my user name and then my password,
and all that happens is a pale blue screen and zilch. No sound of the
hard drive reading anything -- just total silence.

I'm able to gain access by the failsafe methods.

I did some upgrades over the last two days. Firstly I upgraded my jdk
and when I used my laptop again, the sound with Skype ceased to work
(and possibly the video). Running lsusb show everything connected as
normal.

So today, I upgraded packages with alsa, pulseaudio, etc. hoping it
would fix my problem and Synaptic also marked some gnome packages for
upgrade. 190 packages were downloaded. When I restarted, I couldn't log
in.

In failsafe mode I can access Synaptic but the File --> History tab is
greyed out, so I can't tell which packages to re-load with older
versions. I can't find anything pointing to where on the hard drive
Synaptic keeps this file.

My sources.list file is as follows:-


deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free  
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib 

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free  

# deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free  
# deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free  
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib 
# deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free  
# deb http://192.168.0.1/debian/ snapshot/


I have tried

dpkg --configure -a

and it displays nothing. I also tried

apt-get -f install

and it told me there was nothing to install.


I believe I need to go back to an older version of a package that I
assume is related in some way with gnome.

How do I find out which package??????


I want my system back.

Regards,
Rob