Bug#687569: gdm3 displays "Oh No! Something has gone wrong"

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Sep 28 19:05:25 UTC 2012


Le vendredi 28 septembre 2012 à 09:12 +0200, Andreas Beckmann a écrit : 
> There is 304.51 in experimental and everything < 304.48 in snapshots.
> Please try these and if it's not working in .51 find the first broken
> one. If it still seems related to nvidia, report a new bug against
> nvidia-glx (using the experimental version) with reportbug to collect
> system information and logfiles. This may also be done from the console
> after you got the error from gdm. Then I'll give you instructions how to
> forward this to Nvidia, they have become more responsive recently :-)

Felix, can you try these versions?

> What I see in many bug reports against nvidia, is that gdm3 tends to go
> havoc and spawns hundreds of X servers if something goes wrong. Leaving
> you many many Xorg.*.log[.old]. I experienced this myself by e.g. just
> not having a display connected. Filed/commented, but I'm too lazy to
> look up the bug numbers right now. Worked around by s/gdm3/kdm/, sorry.

This bug should have been fixed in GDM 3.4. Are you still seeing it?

(Anyway this is unrelated: the thing that crashes here is gnome-shell,
not Xorg.)

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