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

[Aaron Barany]

I switched from Gnome to Xfce (using Slim for a loging manager), and have
also switched distros, so unfortunately I can't answer that question.

Aaron

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de>wrote:

> 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
>
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