After package update x fails to start

[inode77]

Since todays update (update.out) gdm / X fails to start on my Lenovo Thinkpad T400s

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

[inode77 (simon-gerber)]

Kernel ringbuffer

[inode77 (simon-gerber)]

Complete Packetlog (updates to blame have timestamp from 15.09.2009 19:xx)

[inode77 (simon-gerber)]

Xorg Logfile

$ grep -e '\([WE][WE]\)' Xorg.0.log
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module i810
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
(WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
(WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
(WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
(WW) intel(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f

[inode77 (simon-gerber)]

lspci.out

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

From dmesg.out
[ 147.642664] gvfs-gdu-volume[3206]: segfault at 84 ip b7e74c68 sp bfd31a80 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.4.0[b7e68000+40000]
[ 147.676301] update-notifier[3199]: segfault at 84 ip b756cc68 sp bf8f2b80 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.4.0[b7560000+40000]
[ 147.783076] gdu-notificatio[3220]: segfault at 84 ip b800dc68 sp bfa1e190 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.4.0[b8001000+40000]
[ 148.114407] gvfs-gdu-volume[3237]: segfault at 84 ip b7f01c68 sp bf881250 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.4.0[b7ef5000+40000]
[ 148.130390] x-session-manag[3104]: segfault at 8 ip 0806f293 sp bfc79630 error 4 in gnome-session[8048000+3a000]

I don't see anything suspicious in Xorg.0.log. It looks like xorg itself starts fine, but that the programs that that is spawned then has problems. According to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus there has been a lot of updates to dbus over the last days (and also to gdm). Has anything changed over the last days? Maybe you can try to downgrade to 1.2.16-0ubuntu2. There are still debs available for your architecture from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/1.2.16-0ubuntu2 , but they will be automatically removed soon.

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Also, could you upload the gdm log files from /var/log/gdm, since there may be some error messages there.

[inode77 (simon-gerber)]

I updated today as you suggested and the issue resolved itself.

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Thank you for letting us know that it is now resolved. It might have been that two packages that needed to be upgraded simultaneously got out of sync for a moment.