Gdm hangs, then restarts as it asks for my password.

[zeimusu]

Binary package hint: gdm

Using Lucid Lynx beta. Fully updated.

I start Lucid, and come to the log in screen.
I click my user name. The password entry box appears, but gdm appears to hang. The mouse stops moving, and no black circles appear in the password box. After about 5 seconds the screen blanks and gdm restarts with the "Click your name" box.

I am able to login to tty1. I tried setting Timed login, but that failed

There is a similar bug, but that was invalid - #496772

Cut and paste from log files below.

$ grep gdm syslog
[...]
Apr 7 12:04:35 KODAN kernel: [ 19.623298] type=1505 audit(1270638275.907:6): operation="profile_load" pid=723 name="/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession"
Apr 7 12:04:36 KODAN gdm-binary[708]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id found
Apr 7 12:04:45 KODAN gdm-simple-greeter[1115]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
Apr 7 12:04:46 KODAN gdm-session-worker[1118]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Apr 7 12:04:53 KODAN gdm-simple-slave[800]: WARNING: Child process -1102 was already dead.
Apr 7 12:04:53 KODAN gdm-simple-slave[800]: WARNING: Unable to kill D-Bus daemon
Apr 7 12:04:57 KODAN gdm-simple-greeter[1378]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
Apr 7 12:05:21 KODAN gdm-session-worker[1381]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed
Apr 7 12:05:28 KODAN gdm-simple-slave[1342]: WARNING: Child process -1365 was already dead.
Apr 7 12:05:28 KODAN gdm-simple-slave[1342]: WARNING: Unable to kill D-Bus daemon
Apr 7 12:05:32 KODAN gdm-simple-greeter[1436]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow

#cat /var/log/gdm/0:-greeter.log
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10bc1d0bd09408102c127063833053060900000014240000.ms: Failed to open file '/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10bc1d0bd09408102c127063833053060900000014240000.ms': No such file or directory
** (process:1436): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=1436 display=:0.0 xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-CrqyJf/database

(gnome-power-manager:1437): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x910b520'
gdm-simple-greeter[1436]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200046 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1200046 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

(gnome-power-manager:1437): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with a timestamp of 0. This shouldn't happen!
gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.