gdm crashes endlessly loops

[ryanb]

Binary package hint: gdm

I'm running with an nvidia card and 2 monitors using xinerama. After the update to gdm it just crashes constantly saying "the launcher crashed; attempting to use another one" or something like that. It will just do this enlessly until I switch to a command line and stop gdm.

From the command-line I can "startx" with no problems.

I found a forum entry that had me change the gdm.conf Greeter line to:
Greeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmlogin

Now everything works again. It's ugly, but at least functional.

I looked through all the gdm logs I could and they say nothing different than they did days ago (that's the only place I could think to find a bug trace)...

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Thank you for the report. Please, can you try to remove the 'Greeter' line, trigger a crash and attach here the output of:
cat ~/.xsession-errors
dmesg

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

I've uploaded a report from apport in bug #152727
I also have Xinerama enabled, which disables XRandR whith the proprietary NVidia driver (I think)