Can't login to F11 - how to report bug?

[darrell pfeifer]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:24, Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my other computer running F11 with GNOME and Compiz enabled I can't
> log in to GNOME any more. When GNOME tries to load I get the screen goes
> black and I am sent out to the GDM login screen.
>
> Any idea where the problem could be? I kind of suspect Compiz, but since
> I can't disable Compiz I don't know. And if I don't know I can't file a
> bug...
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to proceed?
>

You can log in to a text terminal and change from compiz to metacity.

gconftool-2 --set
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string
'metacity'

You could also take a look at the xorg log and the .xsession-errors
file to see if they give you a hint.

darrell