Bug#579507: crashes during start

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 à 08:54 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit :
> Good morning guys,
> 
> I just upgraded to gdm 2.30.2-1 and tried to restart with the new gdm3.
> It failed before showing anything (the mouse was visible, though), fell
> back to TTY1 and tried to start again until the number of allowed X
> failures was reached and it aborted.
> 
> A downgrade of gdm3 to 2.30.0-3 fixed my problem.
> 
> See attached the relevant part of syslog and a gdm3.log with roughly the
> right timestep (I hope I got a usefull one).

Thanks for the logs. This is a crash in the accessibility infrastructure
(that’s enabled by default since 2.30.2).

FYI, you can work around it by
setting /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility to false
in /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults (but obviously we should fix this
instead).

> Feel free to ping me for more information.

To go further, installing libatspi-dbg should give a more detailed
backtrace. Ideally if you managed to run the gnome-session process that
crashes in a gdb session you could obtain an even more detailed one.

Unfortunately I can’t reproduce that bug so I can’t test myself.

Cheers,
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