Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg
I updated karmic a few days ago, while 3 users has X sessions open via switch-user. The account I was using had no problems thereafter, but the other 2 that were logged in during update couldn't login (either by switch-user or, after reboot, fresh gdm login). They got the screen-wiggle and back to login box. Other accounts unaffected. Looked at differences in $HOME contents, saw .config/monitors.xml existed in these 2 accounts, but not elsewhere. Renamed/removed this and login was happy again. I'm guessing this is xserver-xorg install-related failure, but not sure. Also guessing there was some change in this transient file, and for safety during install, it's removed from $HOME/.config, making current user safe, but not removed from other users' $HOME I saw a SEGV in /var/log/X.0.log, now overwritten. Here's a .xsession.errs.old, which maybe helpful... /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-dWEE9g/socket SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-dWEE9g/socket.ssh (gnome-settings-daemon:3133): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed Checking for Xgl: not present. xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log No whitelisted driver found aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/charlie/.config/metacity/sessions/10f42569cdf6ac0adb126005706211300100000030490024.ms: Failed to open file '/home/charlie/.config/metacity/sessions/10f42569cdf6ac0adb126005706211300100000030490024.ms': No such file or directory gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0. gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on display ':0.0'. gnome-panel: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. All the other files attached by ubuntu-bug are after the event, and unlikely to be helpful /var/log/dpkg.log snippet from the failure-triggering install is .... 2009-12-02 22:41:07 configure xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:07 status unpacked xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:07 status half-configured xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:07 status installed xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:07 configure xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:07 status unpacked xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:07 status half-configured xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status installed xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 configure xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status unpacked xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status half-configured xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status installed xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 configure xutils 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status unpacked xutils 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status half-configured xutils 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status installed xutils 1:7.4+3ubuntu10 2009-12-02 22:41:08 trigproc libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu15 2.10.1-0ubuntu15 2009-12-02 22:41:08 status half-configured libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu15 2009-12-02 22:41:09 status installed libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu15 I'd guess xserver-xorg install was the trigger ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Dec 5 16:11:09 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gnome-session 2.28.0-0ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic SourcePackage: gnome-session Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:4855): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:4855): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (nautilus:4899): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4915): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (gnome-panel:4898): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 24 ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- stale .config/monitors.xml breaks login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493016 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp