I've managed to reproduce the crash creating the .desktop file on the /usr/share/xsessions dir, I've updated the gdm package to the proposed one, tested it again and there's no crash this time, the session works fine. Marking this as verification done, thanks all.
** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- gdm crashes when it encounters a .desktop session file it can't read https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542345 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs