severity 534475 important kthxbye On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 19:27:39 +0200, Apelete Seketeli wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core > Version: 2:1.6.1.901-3 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software > sigh. how is an X crash unrelated to X? > Since the update to 2:1.6.1.901-3 I am unable to log into my Gnome desktop. It > seems that GDM crashes when I enter my username and password, leaving me with > a > blank grey screen with no mouse and nothing working (not even switching to a > terminal framebuffer using ctrl-alt-Fx): a complete system freeze. > > After booting GDM sometimes shows up with a graphically corrupted screen but > the > system is working fine: I can log into a terminal framebuffer. I did so, and > disabled KMS (kernel 2.6.30), after that everything went back to normal. GDM > is > launching Gnome, and I can access my desktop. this is probably the dri2 abi change. rebuilding xserver-xorg-video-intel should fix it. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
