Ubuntu hangs after login

hello

whats your video card and swap space?

My videocard is a Nvidia 9600 GT, but I don't know what you mean by swap space?

Cheers,

Bloesum

BTWE, I did notice that the Nvidia splash screen didn't show up anymore.

Ok paste the output of

sudo fdisk -l (small L)

Here is the output from the Live cd terminal:

Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002a00b

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 89972 722700058+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 89973 91201 9871942+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 89973 91201 9871911 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x34d15597

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2 * 7 14589 117137947+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Regards,

Bloesum

try moving to some other terminal, (press Ctrl+Alt+F1), issue the command startx over there, and see if it works properly.

No, I tried that before, but I forgot what happened.

Now I started up the live cd and almost the same happened as what I described at the beginning of this thread when starting up in normal mode. But now the white panel turned into an error message:

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was:

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

Should I restart the live cd and hope it will fix the problem itself?

Bloesum

I discovered that after an normal boot the white panel top left turned into an error message "GNOME Settings Daemon" after 3 minutes and my desktop somehow reappears. After some more googeling on this message I found threads about HAL (and luckely their was another Hal update today) and about /etc/network/interfaces. So I tried to sudo regit the interfaces but I wasn't able to reset the code to:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

"/etc/network/interfaces does not respond", so what is next?

Cheers,

Bloesum

This is the code in my /etc/network/interfaces, but I cannot change it:

auto wlan0
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-psk xxxxxxxxxx
wpa-driver wext
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-proto WPA
wpa-ssid xxxxxxxxxxxxx
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant

Anybody?

Got it! I changed the file from the live cd (I love this thing!) into the standard:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I still need to configure my wlan0, but now I am much more prepared;-)

Bloesum