Bug#692814: gdm3 is not staring normally

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:41 +0530, Praveen A wrote:

> 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).
> 
Please get us the X log showing the error, the one in your message seems
fine.

Cheers,
Julien
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