Bug#365488: Current GNOME crashes X

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:26 -0500, Donald King a écrit :
> Ever since a GNOME upgrade around late April, I haven't been able to use
> GNOME at all.  By downgrading to Sarge versions of the kernel, X, and
> GNOME, I narrowed it down to GNOME, although not to any particular
> package.  However, it's almost certainly gnome-session or one of its
> dependencies.  Sorry I can't be more specific, but gnome-session pulls
> in a big circular mess.

This has nothing to do with gnome-session, this is a X server bug
triggered by gnome-settings-daemon when setting the keyboard properties.

To be able to log in, you have to run:
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard

> Behavior:  When using GDM or startx, GNOME crashes during the startup
> screen.
[...]

This is a really nasty bug in Xorg 6.9, which seems to be triggered by
libxklavier. It's really hurting testing users as they can't login to
gnome when they have set some keyboard settings.

How is going the testing migration of Xorg 7.0? As it doesn't look like
it will happen soon, would it be possible to upload fixed packages for
this bug to testing-proposed-updates, if the actual patch that fixed
this bug is known?
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