system frozen at login screen, 2 gdm instances

[psyncho]

Binary package hint: gdm

I go to login to my machine to find the login screen frozen.

If I do ps aux | gdm I get the following:

root 8320 39.9 2.2 26924 21484 tty7 Rs+ Sep02 914:48 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
root 8627 0.0 0.1 12220 1352 ? Ss 15:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm --config=/etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf
root 8628 0.0 0.1 12220 1492 ? S 15:12 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm --config=/etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf
root 8639 0.0 0.0 1636 396 ? Ss 15:12 0:00 /usr/lib/gdm/gdmopen -l /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/dialog --yesno 'There already appears to be an X server running on display :0. Should another display number by tried? Answering no will cause GDM to attempt starting the server on :0 again. (You can change consoles by pressing Ctrl-Alt plus a function key, such as Ctrl-Alt-F7 to go to console 7. X servers usually run on consoles 7 and higher.)' 16 70
root 8642 0.0 0.0 1636 288 tty9 Ss+ 15:12 0:00 /usr/lib/gdm/gdmopen -l /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/dialog --yesno 'There already appears to be an X server running on display :0. Should another display number by tried? Answering no will cause GDM to attempt starting the server on :0 again. (You can change consoles by pressing Ctrl-Alt plus a function key, such as Ctrl-Alt-F7 to go to console 7. X servers usually run on consoles 7 and higher.)' 16 70

I'm not sure why this is happening or what to do. Any guidance would be much appreciated.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support

[psyncho (psye)]

O.k., but if a user installs a system and automatically gets errors and its
because too many gdms are being launched by the scripts that were in the
install, then I would call that a bug.

I guess I have to figure it out myself or give up on ubuntu

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
> Sebastien Bacher
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:01 AM
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 137192] Re: system frozen at login screen, 2 gdm instances
>
> Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as
> such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make
> more sense to raise your question in the support tracker.
> http://launchpad.net/support
>
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> system frozen at login screen, 2 gdm instances
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137192
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

why not using the support tracker?