Cinnamon crashes on login (17.1 Rebecca)

[John Franklin]

Upon logging into a desktop session, a popup appears "Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in Fallback Mode. Do you want to restart Cinnamon?" Clicking Yes returns the same popup.

[John Franklin (ubuntu-sentaidigital)]

Add xsession-errors

[John Franklin (ubuntu-sentaidigital)]

Add dmesg

[John Franklin (ubuntu-sentaidigital)]

Running cinnamon at the command line returns "Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 492: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xffffffff) == 8' failed!"

[John Burt (n9dvm)]

I have experienced these symptoms with Mint 18.0 on my Thinkpad T420 laptop. I would get the Cinnamon crash on about half of the boots.
I have applied the fix described in the following link, and it seems to be a work-around for the problem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/4so1xz/mint_18_cinnamon_sometimes_crashes_on_boot_solved/

Please contact me if you would like more information, any logs, etc.

[Turbo Nene (turbonene)]

One year wiht LM 17.2/17.3, no problem at all. Upgrading to LM 18 from 17.3 las december, with errors, so fresh install of LM 18 => got this problem, upgrading to LM 18.1 did not solve it.

Some boots (after introducing user pass) lead to black screen, CPU 100% (fan running), high disk activity (SSD) during ~5 min, then Cinnamon crashes in fallback mode. After manual shutdown, maybe the next boot is OK or not, sometimes I can have 3 or 4 fallback boots in a row, then I can have also 3 or 4 good boots.

Trying the workaround mentioned by John Burt (n9dvm) works: enabling timed login 10s leads to no crashes at all in two days (10 boots). But I cannot have timed login, disabling it leads to crashes again. The worst is that 'manual timed login' (waiting 10s or 20s in normal login after introducing password) does NOT solve the problem: the crashes may arise again.

It is a very annoying bug, because I cannot reliably boot my machine... last resort I have is giving up LM/Cinnamon.

[Turbo Nene (turbonene)]

Solved with update to LM 18.2 Sonya (I maintain MDM and kernel 4.4): no crashes anymore.