Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort()

[Joey Stanford]

Crashes on boot and I get prompted for "Low Graphics Mode". Installing nvidia-current-updates didn't help nor did dpkg-reconfigure.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.38-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 304.51 Tue Sep 18 17:16:56 PDT 2012
 GCC version: gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1)
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Fri Feb 22 09:22:16 2013
DistUpgraded: 2012-09-28 11:37:52,609 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current-updates, 304.51, 3.5.0-25-generic, x86_64: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] [10de:0641] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:1571]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-01 (296 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
MachineType: ECS X58B-A2
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/X :1 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:1 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
ProcEnviron:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-25-generic root=UUID=e348cd1f-b934-4891-977b-bb68a5cf51cc ro
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
StacktraceTop:
 OsAbort ()
 ?? ()
 FatalError ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main (main=0x7f797c4e71b0, argc=9, ubp_av=0x7fff2e9dc278, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fff2e9dc268) at libc-start.c:226
Title: Xorg crashed with SIGABRT in OsAbort()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-28 (146 days ago)
UserGroups:

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dmi.board.name: X58B-A2
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
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dmi.product.name: X58B-A2
dmi.product.version: 1.X
dmi.sys.vendor: ECS
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.6-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3

[Joey Stanford (joey)]

Note that this happens ONLY when lightdm is the display manager. If I
use GDM I don't get this error.

I did a number of things to try and fix this with lightdm...
dpkg-reconfigure'ing all of X and lightdm, installing
nvidia-current-updates, etc..

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1037518, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.