** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573099
Title: gdm-simple-greeter always crashes on start Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm This computer has been upgraded from Hardy to Lucid. gdm-simple- greeter always crashes when GDM is run (on start, or when changing user), though the bottom GDM bar (power, accessibility remains active). Workaround is to make an user autologin, but this required changing config files from commandline, and switching users is now impossible. Apport doesn't detect this crash (even when enabled and with no core dump size limits), most likely because GDM has its own way of handling crashes. gdm-dbg packages for 2.30 on i386 aren't available apparently, which is a pain. I'm attaching the trace I can get when attaching to the gdm-simple- greeter process after the crash (it doesn't die), it has much information about GTK and GLib functions, but obviously nothing about GDM itself since symbols are missing. See also the warnings from /var/log/gdm/:1-greeter.log, which are interesting. This bug is very annoying because it leaved system completely unusable after upgrade for non-techies. Really not a nice user experience! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gdm 2.30.0-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Sat May 1 17:34:25 2010 ProcEnviron: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/573099/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
