Computer: Toshiba Terca A4

OS: Ubuntu Desktop 10.10

After installing 10.10, the splash screen hangs and the mouse pointer appears.

Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

~/.xsession-errors has

(nautilus:3190): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

btw, Safe-mode works:

I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 into a command prompt session and run

ps aux | grep slave

then

sudo kill [id of gdm-simple-slave]

That killed the session and allowed me to login in safe-mode. Safe-mode works. Then I open a terminal and run

ps aux | grep nm-
sudo kill -9 [id of nm-applet]
nm-applet --sm-disable &

to get my internet connection up.