Bug#692814: gdm3 is not staring normally

[Simon McVittie]

On 09/11/12 11:00, Praveen A wrote:
> DRM_IOCTL_I915_GEM_APERTURE failed: Bad file descriptor
> Assuming 131072kB available aperture size.
> May lead to reduced performance or incorrect rendering.
> get chip id failed: -1 [9]
> param: 4, val: 32653
> Xorg: ../../intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c:2783: drm_intel_bufmgr_gem_init:
> Assertion `0' failed.
...
> But when I go to single user mode (using grub "recovery mode" menu)
> and start manually /etc/init.d/gdm3 it start successfully.

This doesn't necessarily look like a gdm bug to me: it's a crash in the
Xorg server started by gdm, possibly to do with libdrm-intel1 or the
i915 driver in the kernel (or maybe X, or the X Intel driver).

Please send the information that would have been gathered if you'd
reported this as an X bug, which you can get with this command:

    reportbug --template xserver-xorg

Do you get this error with gdm3 3.4 from unstable, or only with gdm3 3.6
from experimental?

X maintainers: any ideas?

    S