Bug#497339: gdm: Login disappears when switching user

[Russell Weatherburn]

G'day Josselin,

Thanks for the response.

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 01 septembre 2008 à 10:18 +1000, Russell Weatherburn a écrit :
> In this case, are there errors in the /var/log/gdm/:1.log
> and /var/log/Xorg.1.log files ?
I've attached the /var/log/gdm/:20.log.1 file which relates to the login
yesterday which disappeared.  Looking at the Xorg.20.log.old file,
except for some informational and warning messages (which appear
innocuous) the error message at the end appears the same.  If you want
this file, let me know and I'll email it to you.
> 
>> A similar situation I have also seen when using vnc4server, however it
>> occurred with VT7.  VT7 became unusable, however switching users and
>> using VT10 was possible.
> 
> What do you mean by unusable?
It would no longer be able to be accessed - when I switched to it the
screen would be either all garbled or would just have the cursor
flashing in the top left corner (and clear otherwise).  Excluding
changing the inittab to allow a mgetty process for VT7 (which I didn't
think of until now) X would no longer switch to that VT.
> 
>> If this bug should be pointed elsewhere, please let me know.
> 
> It is probably a bug in your graphics driver causing a crash when you
> switch to or from another VT.
I would be a little surprised if it was the graphics driver.  I've been
running the NVIDIA drivers for quite some time, and although I have had
some issues with crashing and otherwise, it was stable for quite some
time.  I've only just started to change this machine over to Lenny since
the freeze, and it is mostly up to date.

Regards,

Russell.
-- 
--

Russell Weatherburn

mailto:russell at oxyoss.net
http://www.oxyoss.net

Semper Fidelis
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: :20.log.1
Url: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/attachments/20080902/a6592796/attachment.txt