Bug#694367: gdm3 crashes on user logout

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Nov 25 22:13:08 UTC 2012


Le dimanche 25 novembre 2012 à 13:02 -0800, David Castor a écrit : 
> After a fresh install of Squeeze on 11/23/12 after a hard drive failure, I have
> been experiencing problems with gdm3 (I think).  Upon the first boot up, it
> works perfectly, displays normal login screen with all users listed.  After
> login gnome works perfectly. Upon a logout, I get a new screen with a large
> Debian rectangle and no log in window. Mouse is functional, but I can't get
> login window to appear.  A look at the greeter-log seems to indicate some
> errors, but I don't understand them.  This also occurs when screen is locked to
> due to inactivity.  In this case, there is a login window to enter the user's
> password.  But the correct password fails.  If I try to log in as another user,
> this does not work and it returns to the previous user unlock window.

Your log indicates the X server is crashing, so this is probably not
directly related to GDM.

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