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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:39:21PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 23:30 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This has been reported previously, in 462942, but that bug has been
> closed.

Looks like nobody reopened while people still saw the problem and so it got archived.

Anyway, I have x11-xkb-utils installed, and don't think it's related.

I also don't have Composite enabled in my xorg.conf.

Kurt