Thanks from the redhat bug sounds like the root cause of the crash is a bug in the kernel. The looping behavior is bug 441638 - a fix is in karmic-proposed now.
** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- [i915][Karmic-RC] gdm crashes in a loop after fresh install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460315 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
