Bug#480469: X crashes on first login after reboot

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:00 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> since a few weeks I have the problem that X crashes when logging in on
> gdm for the first time. After gdm restarted its then possible to login
> and start my gnome-session. I thought this might be related to gdm, but
> while troubleshooting I tried to start XFCE instead of GNOME directly
> after the reboot and that worked fine. From ~/.xsession-errors I cannot
> see anything that looks relevant to the error to me, but I'm unsure:
> 
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/maggie:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3362
> xrdb:  "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150
> xrdb:  "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191
> xrdb:  "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151
> xrdb:  "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192
> Fenstermanager-Warnung:Gespeicherte Sitzungsdatei /home/schoenfeld/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms konnte nicht gelesen werden: Datei »/home/schoenfeld/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms« konnte nicht geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> Initializing gnome-mount extension
> Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
> 
> ** (gnome-session:3362): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost.
> ** Message: <info>  Sie sind nun mit dem drahtlosen Netzwerk 'BOUMER2' verbunden.
> 
> unable to connect to the rxvt-unicode daemon: Connection refused
> urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
> urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
> urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
> urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
> urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
> 
> A bit strange is the host name lookup failure on localhost, because /etc/hosts
> contains valid entries for localhost.
> 
> schoenfeld at maggie ~ % grep localhost /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1   localhost
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> 
> But as /etc/hosts hasn't been changed (for example by
> network-manager-gnome) I guess that is not related.

Hi,

That's very interesting, there have been several bug reports about gdm
crashing on the first login, but so far no one have made the connection
to gnome-session.

I wonder if others who have reported this also find this limited to
gnome-session and if there's a common configuration?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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