Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid regression-release
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gdm-simple-greeter always crashes on start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573099
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