This may or may not assist, but I saw the same behaviour as described. In my environment, a vmware-server guest, I had cloned the machine and on the console changed its name in /etc/hostname.
The fix for me was to also change the entry in /etc/hosts. -- gutsy: gdm greeter is crashing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
