when stuck during login, doing this on the console: kill -SIGUSR1 $(pgrep -x lightdm-gtk-greeter) ...gets it going and login proceeds successfully.
The lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.8.2 seems to be stuck on a mutex (race condition maybe??): Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6236880 (LWP 2261)): #0 0xb6d6629d in __lll_lock_wait () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 #1 0xb6d62007 in _L_lock_1154 () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb6d61f8d in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 #3 0xb6f4afe0 in g_mutex_lock () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0xb6f082b4 in g_main_loop_quit () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #5 0xb73cf343 in gtk_main_quit () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 #6 0xb77b9ad4 in _start () Sorry I don't have symbols this was on a live-booted USB key which I can't change right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org