file /etc/gdm/custom.conf missing

[John Winterton]

Binary package hint: xorg

UBUNTU 10.10 updated to 11 a.m. EDT today.

When booting, gdm fails to start because the titled file is absent. You are dropped into command line.

Would it be useful to copy the file from my existing version of 10.04.1 LTS and retry?

I did check the directory, and the file is absent on 10.10

On 10.04.1 LTS, I examined the file and find nothing that should impede the boot if it were copied, however, I don't want to interfere with any fixes you may generate and am willing to leave things as they are.

My machine is dual booted, and one of my hard disks is devoted to the test bed.

I am glad I was able to copy the GUID for this bug correctly, but it would be nice if you could devise a way of short-cutting entering this in the browser command line. It wrapped around on my screen, and I wasn't sure I got all of it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.agp.card:
 Fast Writes: Supported
 SBA: Supported
 AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
 Registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000000
.proc.driver.nvidia.agp.host.bridge:
 Host Bridge: PCI device 10de:01e0
 Fast Writes: Supported
 SBA: Supported
 AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
 Registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000001
.proc.driver.nvidia.agp.status: Status: Disabled
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.18 Tue Jul 13 13:16:20 PDT 2010
 GCC version: gcc version 4.4.5 20100902 (prerelease) (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-13ubuntu2)
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 9 12:25:09 2010
DkmsStatus:
 nvidia-96, 96.43.18, 2.6.35-20-generic, i686: installed
 nvidia-96, 96.43.18, 2.6.32-24-generic, i686: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: HP Pavilion 06 DF247A-ABA 725N
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-20-generic root=UUID=bdc4f139-20b6-4b20-9afa-948ce9a31ddc ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 08/31/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 3.21
dmi.board.name: A7N8X-LA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr3.21:bd08/31/2004:svnHPPavilion06:pnDF247A-ABA725N:pvr05/1211RE101EXPLO:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnA7N8X-LA:rvr1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: DF247A-ABA 725N
dmi.product.version: 05/1211RE101EXPLO
dmi.sys.vendor: HP Pavilion 06
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.35-20-generic

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

I forgot to mention, but it should be obvious, that I had to report this from my production version of the O/S. Some of the data collected for this report may well be for the wrong version.

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

2010.09.14 - Received a massive update from the servers for 10.10 beta, so I tried to start gdm, with a different result.

So I tried to start Xorg, and it failed on the Nvidia-96 driver. Here is the Xorg log.

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[ 24.092]
X.Org X Server 1.9.0
Release Date: 2010-08-20
[ 24.092] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 24.092] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-27-server i686 Ubuntu
[ 24.092] Current Operating System: Linux john-desktop-II 2.6.35-21-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 13 22:39:43 UTC 2010 i686
[ 24.092] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-21-generic root=UUID=bdc4f139-20b6-4b20-9afa-948ce9a31ddc ro quiet splash
[ 24.092] Build Date: 08 September 2010 09:03:27AM
[ 24.092] xorg-server 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu5 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
[ 24.092] Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
[ 24.092] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 24.092] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 24.092] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Sep 14 20:53:26 2010
[ 24.093] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 24.093] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 24.095] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
[ 24.095] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ 24.095] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
[ 24.096] (**) | |-->Device "Device0"
[ 24.096] (**) Option "Xinerama" "0"
[ 24.096] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 24.096] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 24.096] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 24.096] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 24.096] (==) FontPath set to:
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
 built-ins
[ 24.096] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 24.096] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
 If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 24.096] (II) Loader magic: 0x81f8e00
[ 24.096] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 24.096] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 24.096] X.Org Video Driver: 8.0
[ 24.096] X.Org XInput driver : 11.0
[ 24.096] X.Org Server Extension : 4.0
[ 24.097] (--) PCI:*(0:2:0:0) 10de:01f0:1043:80c0 rev 163, Mem @ 0xfc000000/16777216, 0xe8000000/134217728, 0xf3500000/524288, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[ 24.098] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
[ 24.098] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 24.099] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[ 24.099] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 24.099] compiled for 1.9.0, module version =...

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

I got sick of messing with the console stuff on the test bed, so I attached the disk drive to my production machine. There is a massive amount of information in the various logs, and they are in suspended animation at the moment. If anyone is interested, I could compress any of them and set up a means for access.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Hey John,

Thanks for testing maverick during its development period. Unfortunately it looks like this bug report didn't get attention during the maverick development period. But I see there's not been more comments on the bug since the release, which makes me wonder if this is still an issue for you?

If you've not seen this issue since maverick's release yourself, it may have been solved by kernel or X or other updates that occurred late in the release; if so, would you mind please closing the bug for us? Go to the URL mentioned in this bug report, click the yellow icon(s) in the status column and set to 'Fix Released'.

If you no longer have the hardware needed to reproduce the problem, or otherwise feel the bug no longer needs tracked in Launchpad, you can set the status to 'Invalid'.

If you are the original reporter and still have this issue, just reply to this email saying so. (Or set the bug status to Confirmed.) If you are able to re-test this against 11.04 Natty Narwhal (our current development focus) and find the issue still affects Natty, please also run 'apport-collect <bug-number>' while running natty, which will add fresh logs and debug data, and flag it for the Ubuntu-X development team to look at.

[John Winterton (jwinterton)]

I have now purchased at new machine, and have an ATI GPU now. Changing to invalid status.