“Cannot find or run the base session script. Running Gnome in failsafe session instead.”
by Craig Mayhew on Sep.28, 2009, under Guides/Fixes, Linux/Ubuntu
After logging into my Ubuntu 9.04 machine I’m greeted with the following message “Cannot find or run the base session script. Running Gnome in failsafe session instead”. The reason for this was I had messed up my permissions and the following fixed it:
After logging in and recieving the errors message press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to drop back into command line. Then run the following:
Sudo chmod 755 /etc/gdm/Xsession
September 30th, 2009 on 12:40 pm
man….i’m in ubuntu 8.04 with same problem….and i did wht u said …but no change still it shows the same msg