Bug#480056: gdm: Gets killed with signal 6 on first login after boot.

[Kurt Roeckx]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.5-1
Severity: important

Hi,

A few days ago, gdm started to restart every time I log in for the
first time after booting.  It switched back to console and then
restarts gdm.

In the log file I see:
May  7 22:46:28 pc2 gdm[2726]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: child 2731 crashed of signal 6
May  7 22:46:28 pc2 gdm[2726]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children

I seem to have this version installed since 2008-04-26, but probably
didn't reboot then.  It was an upgrade from 2.20.4-1.

On the same day I also upgraded xserver-xorg-video-intel from 2:2.2.1-1
to 2:2.2.1-2, and it's changelog suggest not much changed.

I upgraded alot of other packages that day, but they're probably not
related.

According to my log file, I first started seeing the error on the april
27.

I also notice that gdm pid 2726 is still running, but there is now also
one running with pid 2859, not sure if that's normal or not.


Kurt