Bug#481092: X Font Server crashing

[Julien Cristau]

reassign 481092 xfs
tag 481092 moreinfo
kthxbye

Hi Lance,

a while ago you reported this issue to the debian bug tracking system:

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:14:11 -0600, Lance Levsen wrote:

> I'm unsure if this is a GDM error or not. I'm getting these errors in
> syslog and when they happen X Font Server crashes and I'm forced to
> restart xfs. This is an X server, so xfs is required for thin clients.
> This first happened with 2.20.5-1 and I upgraded to 2.20.5-2 but the
> problem is persistent.
> 
> gdmgreeter[3150]: GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_scale:
> assertion `width > 0 || width == -1' failed
> gdmgreeter[3150]: GLib-GObject-WARNING: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
> gdmgreeter[3150]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_signal_connect_data:
> assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
> gdmgreeter[3150]: GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_scale:
> assertion `width > 0 || width == -1' failed
> gdmgreeter[3150]: GLib-GObject-WARNING: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
> gdmgreeter[3150]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_signal_connect_data:
> assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
> 
> It seems to appear somewhat randomly when users log in or log out.
> I'm running both xfs and xfstt and the problem doesn't seem to effect
> xfstt.
> 
Do you still see this today?  If so, are there any messages in dmesg
about the xfs crash?

Cheers,
Julien