GDM freeze on display of password box

[Matthew Woerly]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

I upgraded this machine to Lucid and am using an older Nvidia card with the Nouveau driver. The machine boots and the GDM screen comes up great, but when I press enter on my user name, the password box comes up, but GDM is then frozen and X restarts a few seconds after I try to type anything.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 5 15:09:34 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-96, 96.43.14, 2.6.32-19-generic, i686: installed
MachineType: System Manufacturer System Name
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=1479a35d-5414-4bc6-9359-a60e159b12b4 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
dmi.bios.date: 09/02/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1013
dmi.board.name: A7V8X-X
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: REV 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftware,Inc.:bvrASUSA7V8X-XACPIBIOSRevision1013:bd09/02/2004:svnSystemManufacturer:pnSystemName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnA7V8X-X:rvrREV1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct7:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System Manufacturer
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

From your logs it seems like you're using the proprietary nvidia driver - both for this boot, and for a previous X session which crashed. Are you sure that you're using the open-source nouveau drivers?

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Thanks for pointing that out... I guess I got confused about what driver was actually getting used and forgot to verify.
I tried removing the proprietary drivers and will test that later. For now I changed the bug's package.

[Petervanakelyen (peter-van-akelyen)]

This bug affects me too. I'm using Lucid Beta with all last updates on an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420-card using the proprietary "nvidia-96" driver. After selecting a user, GDM hangs for a few seconds, then restarts with the user-selection menu. Of course the same problem occurs.

It is a problem in the combination of GDM and the "nvidia-96" driver. When I do not specify a driver in xorg.conf I can perfectly login. But with those drivers there's no 3D-accelleration...

[Andrew Stewart (stewart-andrew-j)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug #553200.