On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Chuck Cole wrote: > The "upgrades" I've been getting from Microsoft over the last year seem > to break various features of legacy stuff... I know. But it also happens in the GNU/Linux world. I just had a note on my Ubuntu desktop machine telling me I had to reboot (that is not good because I should almost never have to reboot and it is a big hassle). So I rebooted and Gnome would not come back up. It said that it couldn't find pulse-session. Well, that's because I uninstalled it. Unfortunately, the uninstaller didn't know to delete one of the X11 initialization files. I had no idea what was going on but I happened to know a few tricks that I learned recently. So I started with... Ctrl-Alt-F1 ...which gave me a text-based command line. Then I did this... lynx http://google.com/ ...and googled a bit. This led me to the conclusion that I needed to do this... sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio sudo shutdown -r now ...which solved my problem. It was a small problem, but the effect would have been devastating if I was lacking just a little bit of knowledge. An newer newbie would have had a heck of a time. Mike