seems i can regularly repeat the crash by booting as normal which gives,
- X starts on tty1
- open up something such as gnome-terminal
- type in several dozen characters press enter
- gdm crashes and restarts on tty7
In this scenario all the tty's are set to a US keymap which is wrong instead of UK like they should be.
But, if i now disable usplash on boot,
- X starts on tty7 as it should
- crash cannot be reproduced
With usplash disabled the tty's are all set to UK keymap as usual
Might be helpful
seems i can regularly repeat the crash by booting as normal which gives,
- X starts on tty1
- open up something such as gnome-terminal
- type in several dozen characters press enter
- gdm crashes and restarts on tty7
In this scenario all the tty's are set to a US keymap which is wrong instead of UK like they should be.
But, if i now disable usplash on boot,
- X starts on tty7 as it should
- crash cannot be reproduced
With usplash disabled the tty's are all set to UK keymap as usual