Comment 44 for bug 136529

Same Problem here:

X40 Thinkpad (Gutsy was running fine before - just badly upgraded to Hardy and reinstalled Gutsy)

* installation went fine (usb-stick, alternate-iso, german language, desktop-option, download language-packages during installation)
* first boot ok - even compiz runs
* first update (149 packages) successfull
* 1st boot after 1st update starts gdm, as usual
* after logging in everything is bad:
- dark (brown/gold) screen
- empty top/bottom panels flickering a few times - final: empty screen with functional mouse-cursor
- can switch to tty's

# what i noticed: my hdd is busy all the time - nautilus-debug-error.log is written in my HOME:

"0x8177888 <DATUM> 21:29:07.7605 (USER) debug log dumped due to singal 11"

* disabling gdm (update-rc.d) and starting x (startx&) does _not_ solve this problem!

what can i do??