GDM crashes if you try change the login window.

[Chris Chambers]

Binary package hint: gdm

Attempting to change the login window from Systems>Administration as soon as the password is entered the GDM setup gui does not appear and GDM goes into a loop.Attached syslog at 01.06.11 shows 'message repeated 2685 time and segfault'.Hardy Heron GNU/Ubuntu beta release.GDM 2.20.4.

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Could you run
sudo gdmsetup
and attach the output?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Chris Chambers (chris-c-theo-rd)]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 03:05 +0000, Nattgew wrote:
> Could you run
> sudo gdmsetup
> and attach the output?
>

Hi,don't know how to take output of gnome terminal but would like to
know if you have time to explain.However the output of terminal is
exactly;

gdmsetup[6151]: CRITICAL: Error opening file: no such file or directory

After repeating this many times the GUI will pop up and seems to work OK
although i will reboot now to find out if the login screen has changed
to Gnome.

Chris.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems that your install is broken, you should try to reinstall the gdm package and see if that make it work better

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Try to get a crash submitted as Pedro suggested.
Try reinstalling as Sebastien suggested.
To get stuff out of the Gnome terminal, you can right click and copy or press Shift+Ctrl+C

[Chris Chambers (chris-c-theo-rd)]

Unable to submit crash report there isn't one.
Reinstalled GDM which fixed problem here until reboot when it returns,still get 'CRITICAL: Error...' if sudo gdmsetup run from terminal.
Any amend to gdm from gdmsetup also produces a slow shutdown and 'LIBHAL shutdown failed' error message.This corrects itself after reboot and i get a normal shutdown.

Can accept this may be an oddity to do with this machine only and if so apologies for submitting an bug report.But i am not certain it is.Best Wishes Chris.