GDM Locking up before fully started. After login.

uname -a:
Linux quentusrex-desktop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GH (ICH7DH) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

Anything else?

The key would appear to be (kern.log):

[ 374.936634] metacity[8085]: segfault at 0 ip 080abab3 sp bfa1c800 error 4 in metacity[8048000+7a000]

and may be related to (Xorg.0.log):
AUDIT: Tue Feb 17 22:55:11 2009: 7857 X: client 4 rejected from local host ( uid=1000 gid=1000 pid=7918 )

which is probably caused by (.xsession errors):

MainThread 2009/02/17 22:55:12.0786 (sabayon-apply): Applying profile '/etc/desktop-profiles/user.zip' for user 'quentusrex'
MainThread 2009/02/17 22:55:12.1798 (sabayon-apply): Fatal exception! Exiting abnormally.

Which probably means that the gconf profile isn't being put in pace and therefore gnome has no idea what to do.

There are a whole bunch of errors and exceptions in .xsession-errors following the failure of sabayon-apply

Any advice on how to fix this?

the issue doesn't seem to be specifically a gdm one, do you still get it in current jaunty?

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information?

Do you still get it in current lucid?

 Thanks!

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!