[gutsy] compiz crashes x or gdm repeatedly

[Melissa Draper]

Binary package hint: compiz

CD image: Gutsy Ubuntu i386 Desktop 20070718.1

When booting the LiveCD, GDM repeatedly crashes and restarts. As can be seen in
http://geekosophical.net/random/gutsytesting/RMOV0307.ogg

No possibility to get to a TTY (locks system up completely) or even failsafe terminal (same behaviour as described above).

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)

Logs of glxinfo and xdpyinfo to follow (as taken from Feisty LiveCD system).

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

See attached for glxinfo and xdpyinfo

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

...and after sshing into the loopy livecd, here is the Xorg.0.log

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

I finally tested Tribe2 on this VIA machine. It boots up fine, but had bug 122999 when the desktop loaded up.

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

The test cd provided by Phillip as fix for bug 126964 allows booting to the desktop.

Possibly just another instance of the FS corruption issue?

[mikko (mikko-)]

Gutsy Tribe 3
same problem, eternal Ioop in gdm, I have VIA K8M800

safe mode (vesa driver) works ok.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

According to the bug trail it is likely that the fs corruption was the culprit. Melissa, does it still happen on the current daily CDs? If so, please un-duplicate.