Bug#365488: Current GNOME crashes X

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:16:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

If it's an X server bug, how is it causing the crash of the splash
screen, which occupies an entirely different address space?

> 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?

What's the actual bug?  Have you got a backtrace?
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