Bug#604953: gdm3: Crash on launching GDM3 user-selection

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Aaron,

On Friday, 31. December 2010 22:31:15 Aaron Barany wrote:
> I am also experiencing this issue. I recently installed a GeForce GTX 460
> on my system, which is running Squeeze, and am using the proprietary NVidia
> drivers installed from the Squeeze repositories. Periodically gdm3 will
> fail to launch and will show a blinking "_" cursor in the upper left. I can
> generally recover without rebooting by switching to a different console
> with ctrl-alt-F1, logging in, and running "/etc/init.d/gdm3 restart",
> though sometimes it takes 2 tries to successfully launch gdm3. I have
> attached my xorg.conf, Xorg0.log, and gdm3's 0.log and 0-greeter.log. (the
> slave log was empty)

Is this still an issue with a newer driver? 270.41.06-1 is now available in 
unstable.

For your logs, the dmesg output while loading the module would have been 
interesting. The Xorg.0.log says this:

(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics 
device PCI:2:0:0.
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0):     Please check your system's kernel log for 
additional error
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common 
Problems in the
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
(EE) Dec 31 11:44:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics 
device!



Andreas