I did clean install from ISO DVD. It boots only to command line asking for login. After I login I enter STARTX and desktop appears and some of the studd actually works, but there are a lot of problems:

• there is no way to reboot or shut down except to stopx/logoff and enter shutdown
• sound system doesn't respond
• pulse audio volume control gives "connection failed, connection refused"
• DVD drives not available
• GDebi Package installer is grayed out and so I can't use it (but synaptic package manager works OK)
• Software Center won't start when clicked -- it just stops trying
• DBus cant run because it says /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket file not found (also /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket file not found)

There's just a lot of things wrong and I can't help but think something is missing or was mis-coded in the distro so that there are typos in some script somewhere. If anyone can tell me where to begin to untangle this mess I'd appreciate it, but I think it all begins when it can't start the GUI automatically and I need to enter STARTX.