On a hunch, I rebuilt xorg-server and xserver-xorg-video-ati with -fno- stack-protector, and I am completely unable to reproduce the problem with those binaries. I restarted gdm 5 times from single-user mode and also rebooted the system 5 times. Given that the problem was extremely repeatable before, this is fairly compelling.
It's possible that this could explain my mysterious bug #54726 as well (different machine), though that one is not repeatable so it's difficult to tell. -- [Edgy] System freezes when loading gdm https://launchpad.net/bugs/54650 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
