Bug#692814: gdm3 is not staring normally

[Praveen A]

2012/11/9 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
> 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

attaching the reportbug template.  It started appearing after I
updated gdm3 to the version in experimental. I will try to switch back
to 3.4 version, but I may be able to do it only in one or two days
(currently on a mobile internet plan, but I will try now).

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