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gnome randomly crashes back to GDM login screen

Bug #527721 reported by toffyrn
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gdm (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

Gnome crashes randomly, often when pressing a key after some time of inactivity.
It looks like this bug only happens when GDM/X starts on a tty other than tty7 (in my case tty2).

I have experienced this bug on Arch Linux, and it looks like getty doesnt have time to aquire tty1-6 before GDM is started.
Look at Arch bug and solution: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15881

I did find several reports on gnome crashing, but all of them (?) seemed to be linked to a specific graphic card,
and noone mentioned this solution. Perhaps this is the reason for many other bugs?

Any way to assure getty is ready before GDM is launched?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, do you get the issue if plymouth is uninstalled?

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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toffyrn (toffyrn) wrote :

As far as i can see plymouth is not installed, neither is it available in repositories?

I am using Ubuntu 9.10...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you add you Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old to the bug?

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toffyrn (toffyrn) wrote :
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toffyrn (toffyrn) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

do you have any xorg crash mention in syslog or dmesg log

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote :

I'm seeing this now, too, an with TTY7. See bug 535318.

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote :

Try purging plymouth (not libplymouth2) and see if the problem goes away for you, too.

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote :

I believe that this is likely a duplicate of Bug 535316, and should be fixed when plymouth is fixed.

toffyrn, can you confirm that the problem goes away if you purge plymouth, or get an upgrade that is expect to happen today?

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toffyrn (toffyrn) wrote :

I have not tried purging plymouth. As far as i can see this package does not exist in karmic!?

Thing is i haven't seen this random crash in a while now, and I am waiting for it to happen again as i dont think i have done any upgrades of importance. When I see this bug occur again I am going to post dmesg.log and syslog.

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote :

Oh, sorry, I hadn't seen that you are on Karmic. I've never seen this issue on Karmic. We have one with the same symptoms on Lucid, but it is related to plymouth.

Nevermind, then. :-)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try if that's still an issue on lucid? do you have any crash mention in the dmesg log?

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Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16) wrote :

I'm experiencing it on Maverick, on a Dell Vostro 1500 and an NVidia GeForce 8600M GT.
No mention about the crash either in dmesg or /var/log/dmesg (which I assume output the same text, but I checked both)
claudio@Jarvis:~$ apt-cache policy plymouth
plymouth:
  Installato: 0.8.2-2ubuntu3
  Candidato: 0.8.2-2ubuntu3
  Tabella versione:
 *** 0.8.2-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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