Comment 3 for bug 381901

Hi Ben.

I did the following
1) Rebooted
2) Selected "Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)"
3) Selected "Drop to root shell prompt"
4) Entered "init 2"

Result: back to blank (black) desktop, where only the mouse pointer is visible.

There doesn't seem to be any "hidden" objects under mouse pointer wherever I put the mouse pointer, so it seems to be a case where the GUI itself doesn't load at all.

Performing the above steps, there is a lot of information displayed, and I suspect this is dumped into some log file which might contain useful information as to what failed, but I wouldn't know where to find that log file, or how to read its content.